If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

如果时间是宝贵的,没有一本书不能通过反复阅读而有所提高,那么这本书就根本不值得一读。

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I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

我喜欢写一些早熟、问题少年的故事,他们让人疏远,但又有点讨人喜欢。因为我清楚地记得我生命中的那段时光。我觉得自己比以前更麻烦了,但我只记得当时的感觉。

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

妇女要对她们的孩子负责,她们不能坐视不管,浪费时间看着她们挨饿。

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

人们没有意识到一本书可以改变一个人的一生。

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

你不会把你的生活投入到你的书中,你会发现它就在那里。