Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  • -- William Styron 威廉·史泰隆

大多数书,就像它们的作者一样,都是为死亡而生;只有少数几本书能说死亡对它们没有统治权;他们活着,他们的影响永远存在。

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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

读书是一种思维敏捷的工作,要求很高,在理想的条件下终于产生一种忘我的境界。这给了阅读体验一种无与伦比的崇高和力量,任何其他形式的沟通。

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

剑桥是殖民地或自治领人去的地方,他们去卡文迪什实验室研究物理。

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

我从来没有当过模特,我当过演员,但我一直是个作家。那就是我要呆的地方。

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

十诫所阐述的是一种策略。这是一种统治策略。

The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.

唯一的坏书是一本没有书页的书。

I'm a very conceptual writer.

我是一个非常概念化的作家。