Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  • -- Charles Kingsley 查尔斯·金斯利

除了活着的人,没有什么比一本书更奇妙的了。

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Don't give up when you still have something to give because nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

当你还有东西可以给予的时候不要放弃,因为在你停止尝试的那一刻之前,没有什么是真正结束的。

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

小说家和胡乱修改写作的人的区别在于:小说家完成他们的作品。

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

解剖一本书就像理解生活一样。你必须找到一种方式来诠释生活,否则你会发疯的。

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

他只学了一半的阅读艺术,而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

一个好的话语是,没有什么可以不切入快嘴而被削减。

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

文学学者不能通过书店,正如酒鬼不能通过酒吧一样。