A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

一个人应该按照他的爱好去读书,因为他把读书当作一种任务,这对他没有什么好处。

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Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.

每个人都在唱片上倾吐心声,谈论成为一名艺人有多难,我们有多遭人憎恨,我们必须经历些什么。但我并没有那么糟。我很高兴来到这里。

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.

阅读不仅仅是一种智力上的追求,更是一种情感和精神上的追求。它点燃了自我飓风之灯中的蜡烛;这就是它存活下来的原因。

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

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。

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

不要让任何人害怕死亡,我们都爱睡觉,而死亡只是更健康的睡眠。

Someday you'll be everything to someone just believe and wait.

总有一天,你会成为某个人的一切,只是相信和等待。

We've mellowed out, man.

我们已经成熟了,伙计。