Books are vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.

  • -- John Sutherland 约翰·萨瑟兰

书对学习很重要。一半的人不去看足球比赛,但这并不意味着足球就不那么重要了。

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

许多书不需要读者思考,原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

毫无疑问,那些写长篇小说的人无话可说。 当然,那些写短篇小说的人就更不用说了。

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

没有什么比一个作家站在观众面前读他的作品更令人苦恼或厌倦的了。

I prefer a huge tome to a sharp epigram: only blunt words can hurt dull people.

比起警句,我更喜欢大部头的书:只有直率的言辞才能伤害迟钝的人。