To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

养成读书的习惯,就是为自己建造一个避难所,使自己免受生活中几乎所有的不幸。

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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

和几乎所有使用电子邮件的人一样,我每天都会收到大量的垃圾邮件。其中很多都能帮助我摆脱债务或快速致富。如果不是那么令人兴奋,那就有趣了。

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

为了一个笑话,或者为了某人对某件事的真实信念,我愿意做任何事情来帮助讲述一个故事。

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

幸运的是,我总是带着一本书去旅行,以防我不得不排队等圣诞老人,或者其他一些不便。

You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.

你不允许遭受别人所遭受的痛苦,你不允许失败或英年早逝。

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

普罗米修斯,光明的窃贼,光明的赐予者,被神束缚着,一定是一本书。

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

写小说就是编织一系列谎言以达到更大的真理。

Habit – The contemptible, gazed at too long, becomes temptible.

习惯——可鄙的人,如果长时间地凝视,就会变得可鄙。

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

如果你总是这样做,那很可能是错误的。