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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
我写作完全是为了发现我在想什么,我在看什么,我看到了什么,它意味着什么。我想要什么,我害怕什么。
— Joan Didion 琼·狄迪恩
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更多好句 ↗We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
我们还了解到,这个国家和西方世界并不垄断善良、真理和学术,我们开始欣赏那些构成美好世界不可或缺的要素。在学习的一生中,这也许是最重要的一课。
John Hope Franklin
约翰·霍普·富兰克林
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
当一个人学会阅读的东西对他的生活没有任何重要意义时,他的阅读能力就会贬值。
Bruno Bettelheim
贝特尔海姆
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
你有多少书并不重要,重要的是你的书有多好。
Seneca the Younger
塞内卡
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
从某种意义上说,一个通晓历史的人,可以说从世界诞生之日起就生活在世上,并且在每一个世纪都在不断地增加他的知识储备。
David Hume
大卫·休谟
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
如果你不读报纸,你是无知的;如果你确实读了报纸,你就被误导了。
Mark Twain
马克·吐温
You can’t label yourself with words, it is what you do everyday that defines you.
你不能用语言来给自己贴上标签,你每天所做的事情定义了你。
Raimy Diaz
雷米·迪亚兹