When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

  • -- Clifton Fadiman 克利夫顿·费迪曼

当你重读一本经典著作时,你在书中看到的并不比以前多;你比以前看到了更多。

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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

印刷的页面传达信息和承诺,需要积极参与。电视传达情感和经验,它在逻辑上所能做的非常有限。这是一种存在的体验——在那里,然后消失。

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

如果上帝没有让吃喝成为一种必需,也没有什么比吃喝更令人厌烦的了。

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

有一本好书应该让你问:作者是怎么知道我的?

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

我冒昧地预言,摆在我们面前的将是一个痛苦而邪恶的时代。

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

我的完美读者不只是读书——他或她会狼吞虎咽地读书。

I like to give up on others before they give up on me.

我喜欢在别人放弃我之前先放弃他们。