Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

  • -- Carolyn Heilbrun 海尔布伦

文学教授收集书籍就像船收集藤壶一样,毫不费力。

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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

我认为每个教授和作家在某种程度上都是一个暴露狂,因为他或她的日常活动是一种戏剧活动。当你上课的时候,情况就像写一本书一样。你必须抓住观众的注意力和同谋。

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

读书有两种动机;第一,你喜欢它;另一个,你可以吹嘘一下。

Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.

书中应该充满你永远不能在公共场合对别人说的话。

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

教授必须有理论,就像狗必须长跳蚤一样。