Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

文学是奢侈品;小说是必需品。

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A book is a vacation for the mind. My books will take you inside my mind, so feel free to make yourself at home. Do as you please, but please don’t put your feet up on my hippocampus.

书是心灵的假期。我的书会把你带进我的脑海,所以请不要拘束。随你的便,但请不要把你的脚放在我的海马上。

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

传记是一个非常明确的地域,它以历史为北,以小说为南,以讣告为东,以沉闷为西。

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

科幻小说不再是为科学家写的,鬼故事是为鬼写的。

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

不过,研究另一个人的版本是一种有趣的生活方式。

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

我想象不出有什么比整天躺着看小说更幸福的事了。

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

文学传递着世界内外的信息。