I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

  • -- Daniel Handler 丹尼尔·汉德勒

我喜欢给人们我认为他们会喜欢的小说,在没有特定的场合——只是当我们一起在书店的时候。我喜欢在生日那天收到参考书。

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To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

在这种场合,你一定知道,要用语言向你表达我们个人的感情是不可能的,尤其是对于一个通常只能描述自己身外之物的人来说。

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

从体质中产生的勇气往往在人需要的时候抛弃他;产生于责任感的勇气;以统一的方式。

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

我可以走进一家书店,交出我的信用卡,他们却不知道我到底是谁。也许这能说明书店职员的一些问题。

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

我去了一家书店,问售货员:“自助区在哪里?”她说如果她告诉我,就会违背初衷。