That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

  • -- Nicholson Baker 尼科尔森·贝克

这就是阅读的问题:你总是不得不重新拾起前一天让你停止阅读的东西。

相关名言

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

透视,n。一个人,通常是一个女人,她有能力看到她的恩人看不见的东西——也就是说,他是一个傻瓜。

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

我们重读的书和读不完的书的清单比书本身的相对价值更能说明我们自己。