The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

  • -- Michael Moorcock 迈克尔·摩考克

图书业发明文学奖项是为了刺激销售,而不是奖励有价值的人。

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The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

最好的书不只是提供信息,而是激发读者去了解自己。

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.

在你打开它之前,这本书根本不是未经训练的人会看两遍的。