So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

  • -- Annie Dillard 迪拉德

所以一个作家写了很多书。在每一本书中,他都有意提出几个紧迫而生动的观点,随着书的形式变得更加坚实,他牺牲了其中的许多观点。

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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

我的书是挽歌,从某种意义上说,它们是对一个国家的颂歌,就连我有时也认为,这个国家可能已经不复存在,只存在于我的记忆和想象中。

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

是的,阅读是件大事。书是一件大事。但最引人注目的是报纸。

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

读书对她来说不是一种退路,而是一种理想的生存状态。

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

书不是一堆纸,而是架子上的思想。