A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

  • -- William Styron 威廉·史泰隆

一本好书应该给你留下丰富的经验,让你略显疲惫。读这本书的时候,你应该多活几辈子。

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

一本书就像一个泵。它不会给你任何东西,除非你先给予它。你用你自己的水启动水泵,你用你自己的力量操纵手柄。你这样做是因为你期望得到的比你付出的多。

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时,我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外,没有取得任何更大的成就。

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

我不认为任何人已经用尽了传统摇滚乐队可能的音域,但人们确实成为他们自己最简单的技术的奴隶。

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

我想我的计划是写诗,出版书,以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

我不记得读过的书,就像我不记得吃过的饭一样;即便如此,他们还是让我这么做了。

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

你运用你的技能来制作你自己的书来制作一本选集。塑造。节奏。

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

对于那些厌倦了政治的人来说,只剩下抽象的思想。

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

我认为书还存在是件好事,但它们确实让我昏昏欲睡。