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Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
先写结尾，然后在开头的句子之前你就知道这将是一本好书。
— Richelle E. Goodrich Richelle E.Goodrich公司
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
书是一种脆弱的生物，它经受着时间的磨损，它害怕啮齿动物、大自然和笨拙的双手。因此，图书馆员不仅要保护图书不受人类的侵害，还要保护图书不受自然的侵害，并把自己的生命奉献给这场与遗忘力量的战争。
Umberto Eco
翁贝托·埃科
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
Lionel Trilling
特里林
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
没有书的房间就像没有灵魂的躯体。
Marcus Tullius Cicero
西塞罗
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
我仍然觉得每一天都太短了，我无法去想所有的事情，我无法去散步，我无法读所有的书，我无法去见所有的朋友。
John Burroughs
美国博物学家巴勒斯
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
Eudora Welty
韦尔蒂
I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
我喜欢在我的书中探索邪恶的人物。
Thomas Perry
托马斯·佩里