I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

  • -- Catherynne M. Valente 瓦伦特大教堂

我有所有我需要的书,还有什么比书更需要的呢?

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

在所有获取书籍的方法中,自己写书被认为是最值得称赞的方法。作家真的是那些写书的人,不是因为他们穷,而是因为他们不满意那些他们可以买到但不喜欢的书。

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

一本书读起来比我们自己的书更好,而且我们早就知道它了,所以我们知道它的斑点和狗的耳朵的地形,可以追溯到它里面的灰尘,因为我们在喝茶时读过它,吃过抹了黄油的松饼。

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

致我所有的图书管理员朋友,书籍的冠军,生活之家的真正魔术师。没有你,这位作家就会湮没在尘土中。

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

今天剩下的时间我都在听别人的故事。在我把书放下的那些难得的时刻,我自己的痛苦又回到了刺痛的感觉中。