We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

  • -- Lawrence Clark Powell 劳伦斯·克拉克·鲍威尔

我们是科技时代的孩子。我们已经找到了简化日常工作的方法。印刷不再是复制书籍的唯一方式。然而,阅读它们并没有改变……

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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

书是一种脆弱的生物,它经受着时间的磨损,它害怕啮齿动物、大自然和笨拙的双手。因此,图书馆员不仅要保护图书不受人类的侵害,还要保护图书不受自然的侵害,并把自己的生命奉献给这场与遗忘力量的战争。

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。

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

你读完的一本书和你读之前的那本书不一样。

If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

如果一本书不能自我解释,那么它就不值得一读。