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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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

书籍是伟大的天才留给人类的遗产,它作为礼物代代相传,传给尚未出生的人。

I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it.

我连续工作了九个月,累坏了。我准备休息一会儿,看书。我不想为了工作而工作;我必须对此感到兴奋。

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。

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

懒惰是心灵的敌人;所以弟兄们,务要在所定的时候,为虔诚的读经,劳力人的工夫。

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

当我在监狱里的时候,我被那些深奥的书迷住了。托尔斯泰的那些废话——人们不应该读那些东西。

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become.

一个人的第一个成人书架上的书是我们想成为什么样人的地质床。

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

我做过的人都做过,我的人生做出了合理的展示。我现在可以回去看书了吗?

Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.

书是一面镜子:你只能从里面看到你内心已经有的东西。