When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

  • -- Hilaire Belloc 贝洛克

我死的时候,愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的,他的书是被人诵读的。’

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There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

应该有两个主要目标在普通的散文:传达一个信息,包括任何会分散读者的注意力或检查他的习惯性的阅读速度,他应该觉得他是坐在缓解在出租车上,通过交通不是骑着马气质。

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

每一位伟大而有创见的作家,他的伟大而有创见之处与他的创见成正比,他自己也必须创造出他所要享受的趣味。

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

我想写一些关于现在的人会更接近我习惯做的事情。

We are made whole by books, as by great spaces and the stars.

书籍使我们完整,正如浩瀚的太空和繁星使我们完整一样。

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

结论是你厌倦思考的地方。

All I have learned, I learned from books.

我所有的知识都是从书本上学来的。