Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

  • -- Alan Jacobs 杰柯布

伟大的著作之所以伟大,部分原因在于它们对读者提出的要求:它们不容易遇到,也不容易评估。

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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

这就是使一个年轻作家失去理智的原因,那种什么也没说的感觉。

A room without books is as a body without a soul.

一个没有书的房间就像一个没有灵魂的躯体。