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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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

每个人的工作,无论是文学、音乐、绘画还是其他任何工作,都是自己的一幅画像,他越想隐藏自己,他的性格就越会在不顾自己的情况下清晰地显现出来。

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

当时的节目非常不同,即使是作为头条,我们也做了一个非常短的设置,以今天的标准和音响系统是非常原始的。但女孩们让这一切都值得!

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

在所有的教授都为我们尽了最大的努力之后,我们获得知识的地方就是书本。当今真正的大学是一所藏书的大学。

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

一本好书应该给你留下丰富的经验,让你略显疲惫。读这本书的时候,你应该多活几辈子。

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

菲茨杰拉德先生,我相信他的名字就是这样拼写的,他似乎认为剽窃始于家庭。

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

没有什么比坐在床上,喝浓茶,读书更好的事情了。

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

我是我发明的方法的原始人。

Holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

拿着一本书,但读空的空间。