A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

真正的书不是我们读过的书,而是能读懂我们的书。

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I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

我从未试着找到我真正的父母。我非常感谢我的父母收养了我——他们是非常了不起的人。是我的父亲鼓励我去质疑一切,去开拓自己的道路,去思考,去阅读。我总是觉得我有权质疑一切。

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

有些诗人更擅长即兴朗读,因为他们不擅长演讲。我特别想到了一位我不愿指名画姓的诗人,他读起来枯燥无味,你的眼睛开始耷拉下来。

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

任何一个聪明的女人,只要读了婚姻契约,然后付诸行动,她就应该承担所有的后果。

What is real is beyond all reach.

真实的东西是遥不可及的。