Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

现存的十分之九的书都是胡言乱语,而聪明的书则是对那些胡言乱语的驳斥。

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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

我把书塞进口袋。我向你保证,停止阅读就像从一段古老而牢固的友谊的庇护下挣脱出来。

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

书是终极的哑巴:把它们放下,它们会永远等你;关注他们,他们也会爱你。

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

一个凡人能提出上帝认为无法回答的问题吗?我想很容易。所有无意义的问题都是无法回答的。

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

我写了曲子,只唱些毫无意义的话。然后摩尔来了,给他们穿上了歌词。

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

还有比焚书更严重的罪行。其中之一就是不读。

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

只有当读者读完一本书,它才算完成。