Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

  • -- Erik Larson 埃里克·拉森

读书对我来说是件很私人的事。我更愿意给某人一张书店的礼券,让他/她自己选书。

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The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

个人财富的积累和商业交易的扩大使某些种类的犯罪大大增加,令人感到遗憾,而运输方面的改善在很大程度上便利了在逃罪犯的逃跑。

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

表演是一个非常个人化的过程。它与表达你自己的个性有关,并通过你自己的经历发现你所扮演的角色——所以我们都是不同的。

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

这是一个很好的规则,读完一本新书后,在你读完一本旧书之前,绝不允许自己再读一本新书。

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

因此,让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

任何名符其实的作家都是要么专注于一件事,要么专注于另一件事。

Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.

珠宝并不是我真正喜欢的东西,但我总是注意别人的手表。