Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

书是一种社会性的东西——一个作家对读者说话——所以我认为把读书作为一个社会活动的中心,一个读书俱乐部的聚会,是一个绝妙的主意。

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The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

在他所上的几乎每一门课上,在他所读的几乎每一本书中,黑人的劣等思想都在他脑海中根深蒂固。

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

我经常被指责把人类学变成文学,但人类学也是实地研究。写作是它的核心。

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

拥有知识但缺乏清晰表达的能力,并不比没有任何想法好。

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

乱交就像从来没有读过第一页。一夫一妻制就像一遍又一遍地读同一本书。

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.

“与众不同”的人通常是那些最终能改变世界的人。

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

我开始跳伞是因为我热爱自由。