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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
写书是最接近生育的男人。
— Norman Mailer 梅勒
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更多好句 ↗We cannot learn men from books.
我们不能从书本上学到人。
Benjamin Disraeli
本杰明·迪斯雷利
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
书并不是绝对没有生命的东西，但书中确实包含着生命的力量，使之像它的后代那样活跃;不，它们确实像小瓶一样，保存着孕育它们的活生生的智慧的最纯粹的效力和精华。
John Milton
约翰·米尔顿
An unread book does nobody any good.
没有读过的书对任何人都没有好处。
Brandon Mull
布兰登·穆尔
If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.
如果一本书是由难以置信的东西组成的，那么我们就像从书中走出来的东西。
Brock Clarke
布洛克·克拉克
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
当你的黑名册上所有的名字后面都有医学博士的名字时，你就知道你老了。
Harrison Ford
哈里森·福特
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
我们成为什么样的人，取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。
Thomas Carlyle
托马斯·卡莱尔