Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

  • -- Jim Bishop 毕晓普

我发现,书籍具有让时间静止、后退或飞向未来的力量。

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In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.

事实上,我认为当我们对时间进行完整的分析时,我们会发现,就像物质一样,时间是由基本的离散类型组成的。

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

我的经验告诉我,那些特别擅长经商的人之所以如此,不是因为他们知道什么,而是因为他们对更多知识的贪得无厌的需求。

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

一本书好的部分可能只是一个作家偶然听到的,也可能是他整个该死的生活的毁灭,而其中的一部分和另一部分一样好。

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

关心文字,与文字有利害关系,相信书籍的力量——这压倒了其他一切,与之相比,一个人的生命变得非常渺小。

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

设定一个目标,去完成一些非常大的事情,非常令人兴奋,让你兴奋的同时也让你害怕的事情。

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

乱交就像从来没有读过第一页。一夫一妻制就像一遍又一遍地读同一本书。