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.

  • -- E. L. Doctorow 达特罗

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。

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And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

然而,因为我试图真诚,我被谴责,嘲笑,辱骂;关于我的肮脏谣言一直在流传,不是关于我的性格而是关于我个人,我的私人自我。

The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

互联网和亚马逊的可怕之处在于,它们把购书的魔力和快乐的混乱带离了市场。互联网可能会给你想要的,但它不会给你需要的。

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

“野蛮人”一词在一般意义上的使用,我倾向于认为,它本身就是对这个词的滥用,以及对它所适用的人民的滥用。

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

我喜欢走进书店。就像我所有的朋友都坐在书架上,对着我挥舞着书页。

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

哪里的人性像书店那么脆弱?

I'm not a big shopper.

我不是个购物狂。