The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

  • -- Stephen Leacock 李柯克

经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。

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At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

目前,我正在考虑写一本书的新想法,但我正忙于写剧本,所以我的书的想法——需要在我的脑海中留下空白——还没有形成。

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读,在成熟时读,在老年时读,就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

但是原始人有真实的和想象的敌人,他们不受祭司巫术的支配。

A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

一个原始的民族,他们不知道如何赚钱,除了为钱工作。

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

文学是一种文化的状态,诗歌是一种优雅的状态,前后都是文化。

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

首先,文学只指它自己,文学理论。

Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.

渴望影响生活!改变命运,让梦想成真。

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

我们不应该教好书;我们应该培养对阅读的热爱。