The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  • -- Elizabeth Hardwick 伊丽莎白·哈德威克

最大的礼物是对阅读的热情。它很便宜,它能安慰人,它能分散注意力,它能让人兴奋,它能让你了解世界,获得广泛的体验。这是一种道德启示。

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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

我相信你们都知道,随着把这些书放在一起所花的时间,所有的东西都可能突然开始同时出现,即使我在一到五年前写过任何东西。

Sometimes the greatest relationships are the ones you never expected to be in. The ones that sweep you off your feet and challenge every view you've ever had.

有时候,最好的人际关系是你从未想过会有的。它们会让你神魂颠倒,挑战你所有的观点。

Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.

坚持读、想、做、写! 文字不停地把他们的朋友介绍给你。

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

我只读传记、玄学和心理学。我可以编出我自己的小说。

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

激情的对象只是激情本身的附属品。

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

教育的最大目的是养成良好的学习习惯。

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

要想知道你的激情所在,就去看看你的空中楼阁吧。

We become the books we read.

我们成为我们所读的书。