The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

那些被世界称为不道德的书,是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。

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First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

首先你想知道它们是不是独立的故事,但是不,它们不是,它们是偶然的故事,它们形成了一种模式。你从岛上的一些地方开始书中的女主人公回到了那里。

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

除了我们自己的切身利益之外,我们不能也绝不能抛弃那些已经经历了如此多的悲剧和苦难以击败轴心国邪恶图谋的其他国家。

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

事实上,人们认为当你卖了很多书,你不是一个严肃的作家,这是对读者的极大侮辱。当人们试图说这样的话时,我有点生气。

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

大多数人走了,我希望世界和平。但是混乱在平衡世界上的光明和黑暗方面有一席之地。我不知道我是否希望世界和平。

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

别误会,我认为自行车很棒。我自己也有几辆,其中包括一辆时髦的山地车,我骑它们是为了消遣和轻度运动。

Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands.

阅读只能带你走这么远,直到你必须用自己的双手采取行动的那一刻。

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

书是一面镜子:如果一只猿猴往里看,使徒几乎不可能往外看。

Depending on the reception of the reader, books have their own fate.

取决于读者的接受程度,书籍有自己的命运。

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

我现在和将来的一切都归功于书籍。

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

电影是世界上最美丽的骗局。