The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

  • -- Alfred Hitchcock 阿尔弗雷德希区柯克

平装本很有趣,但我发现它永远也取代不了精装本——它的门槛很低。

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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

我是穷人。当你贫穷的时候,你工作;当你富有的时候,你期待有人把工作交给你。所以我认为合理的贫穷对人们是有好处的。

I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.

我被书吸引住了,就像被一位我从未见过、也严重失踪的母亲的有力臂膀吸引住了一样。

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

一个人在书中摆脱疾病——重复并再次呈现自己的情感,以便控制它们。

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

书籍总有办法进入我们的生活,通常是在我们最需要它们的时候。

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

如果我到这里来谈友谊,我就是这些可怜的烧焦的尸体的叛徒。

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

恐怕我已经堕落成一个爱读书的人了。