I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

  • -- Simon Armitage 阿米蒂奇

如果我在读小说,我甚至会感到内疚,因为我觉得我应该再读一次荷马。我真的不知道什么是空闲时间,因为我没有什么东西可以衡量它。

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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

传统的好书通常是一本坏书,是我们已知的一个放松的沐浴。真正的好书无疑是一种创新的创造行为,在其中,我们,读者,成为同谋者。

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

如果我想做某事,我就去做。如果我想说什么,我就说。如果我想跳舞,我就跳。如果我不知道,我就不知道。

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

你不仅要知道你自己的乐器,你还必须知道其他乐器,以及如何随时备份它们。这就是爵士乐。

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

如果你不能在人生的早期就找到自己,你就会在所有错误的地方寻找你自己。

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

一朵花的目光有时能控制造物中最伟大的自夸者。

It sucks that the one that hurts you, is the one you want to run to too make you feel better.

伤害你的那个人,就是那个你也想跑去让你感觉更好的人,这太糟糕了。