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

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

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。

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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

我确实会重读,有点痴迷,部分原因是我对同一本书在人生不同阶段的阅读方式感到惊讶,部分原因是我有种回到老朋友身边的感觉。

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

一直困扰我一生的一个问题是,为什么当我特别需要帮助时,做好事的人往往是我无权要求帮助的人。

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

我想我从来没有从头到尾读过一本旧书。也就是说,在写了六个多月之后。

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

反恐战争是一场我们没有发动的战争,但我们将完成它。

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

著名的,著名的:明显悲惨的。

I don't reread my books.

我不重读我的书。