One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

  • -- Anne Fadiman 安妮·法迪曼

文学的一个便利之处是,尽管有版权,一本书既属于作者也属于读者。

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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

在我们之间,没有什么东西,抽象地说,作为一个“好”的书。一本书只有在满足了人类的一些欲望或驳斥了人类的一些错误时才是“好”的。

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。