There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

一个渴望读书的人与一个疲惫的人之间有很大的区别。

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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

当读者进入一本诗集,他或她进入一个世界,在那里梦想把过去变成适用于现在的知识,在那里幻想把现在塑造成未来的非凡可能性。

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

我厌倦了解释。你会为一份委托而努力工作,然后它就会出现在一本杂志上,你翻过一页,它就不见了。

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

我的书房里正等着那些可敬的逝者,他们要给我娱乐,把我从活着的凡人的胡言乱语中解脱出来。

I don't care if i'm tired, staying up late texting you is better than sleeping.

我不在乎我累不累,熬夜给你发短信总比睡觉好。

I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.

我不是很想一直坐着看我的电影。

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.

让我们渴望离开熟悉的东西,去追求真实的东西。

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

爱情是把人从自己的帽子里拉出来的魔术师。

No public man can be just a little crooked.

没有一个公众人物可以只是有点不诚实。