【正文】 他對國家政權的批評，他母親已被捕并執(zhí)行了槍決。后來，我被安排護送他到地鐵站，這名生活已被殘酷地打亂的男子，小心翼翼地握著我的手,祝我未來生活幸福!并且只要我還活著，我就會記得走過一個空蕩蕩的的走廊。當他在攝像機前講述被殘暴的摧殘的時候，他顫抖失控。來我們辦公室的訪客有告密者以及想了解迫害真相的人。我看過拷問受害者的證詞和被害的照片，我也讀過筆跡、目擊證人的供詞以及即決審判和處決的綁架和*犯的檔案。那些人冒著被監(jiān)禁的危險，告知外面的世界他們那里正在發(fā)生的事情。在20多歲時，盡管我可以在午餐時間里悄悄寫故事，可為了付房租，我做的主要工作是在倫敦總部的大赦國際研究部門。其中一個影響最大的經(jīng)歷在我寫哈利波特的生活之前，但大部分是在我隨后寫的那些書里。想象力不僅是人類獨具能力：設想還不存在的事物是所有發(fā)明和創(chuàng)新的源泉。你可能會認為我選擇了我的第二個主題：想象力的重要性因為這是重建我生活的一部分。生活是困難的，復雜的，超出任何人的控制。給我一部時間機器，我會告訴21歲的自己：個人的幸福在于知道生命是不是一個獲得或取得的核對清單。對所有人而言，這種認知是一個真正的禮物。從挫折中得到知識將使你更加明智和堅強，也就是說您比以往任何時候更有能力生存。失敗讓我內心安全，是我從通過考試中沒有得到過的。你可能永遠不會有我這種失敗的經(jīng)歷，但有些失敗，在生活中是不可避免的。我獲得了自由，因為我最害怕的已經(jīng)發(fā)生了，但是我還活著，我還有一個我深愛著的女兒，還有一個舊打字機和一個大創(chuàng)意（指寫哈利波特）。我不是在偽裝自己，我只是直接把所有精力放在最重要的工作上?，F(xiàn)在，我不打算站在這里告訴你失敗是好玩的，我的那段生活經(jīng)歷是困窘不堪的；我更不知道新聞媒體所說的童話故事般的革命；我也不知道那種困苦要持續(xù)多久；在相當長的一段時間里，任何盡頭的光明都只是一個希望而不是現(xiàn)實。眼前時刻浮現(xiàn)著父母和自己對未來的擔心。最終，我們所有人都必須自己決定什么構成失敗，但如果你愿意，世界是相當渴望給你一套標準的。事實上，您對失敗的理解可能和普通人對成功的看法不會太遠。但從哈佛畢業(yè)的事實表明，你們對失敗不熟悉。才華和智商從來不會對命運的反復無常有所準備。我有一個通過考試的訣竅，并且數(shù)年間一直認為我的生活在我的同齡人中是成功的現(xiàn)在。像你們這樣大時，我明顯缺乏在大學學習的動力。但貧窮本身只有對傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。貧困帶來的恐懼，壓力有時是絕望，這意味著屈辱和苦難。尤其是，我不會因為自己希望不要經(jīng)歷貧窮而責怪我的父母。埋怨父母給你指錯方向是有時間段的。在這個星球上的所有科目里，我想他們會認為再沒有比希臘神話學更糟糕的了。我不記得是否告訴我的父母我是學習古典文學的。最終達成了一個折衷的意見，現(xiàn)在想起來仍不令人滿意，最終，我去學習現(xiàn)代語言。他們希望我拿到一個職業(yè)學位。不過，我的父母兩人都來自貧窮的背景，而且沒有任何一人上過大學?？梢哉f，我人生的前一部分，一直掙扎在自己的雄心和身邊的人對我的期望兩者之間取得平衡。這些似乎是不切實際或似是而非的選擇，但請原諒我?，F(xiàn)實生活39。我已想出了兩個答案。其實，我為今天應該告訴你們什么已經(jīng)殫精竭慮了。這個笑話，說明我已經(jīng)超越了Baroness Mary Warnock。你們都明白，如果在若干年后您還記得39。因為我不記得她說過的任何一句話了，這個發(fā)現(xiàn)讓我釋然，讓我不再有任何恐懼。發(fā)表畢業(yè)演說是一個巨大的責任，我的思緒一下子回到自己的畢業(yè)典禮上。這真是一個雙贏的局面。if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine am nearly have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for are my children?s godparents, the people to whom I?ve been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never e again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime today, I wish you nothing better than similar tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what wish you all very good you very 、哈佛同仁和監(jiān)察委員會的各位員工，各位老師，家長、同學們:首先請允許我說一聲謝謝。they can refuse to might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own think the wilfully unimaginative see more are oftenmore is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real without ever mitting an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people?s lives simply by how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people?s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique your nationality sets you great majority of you belong to the world?s only remaining way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your is your privilege, and your you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice。I also found out that I had friends whose value was trulyabove the price of knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualificationI ever given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21yearold self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the is difficult, and plicated, and beyond anyone?s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International?s headqu