To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

  • -- Claude Adrien Helvetius 克劳德·阿德里安·海尔维提乌斯

限制媒体就是侮辱一个国家;禁止阅读某些书籍就等于宣布居民不是傻子就是奴隶。

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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

他开始以一种我能认出来的方式看着我:那是我看一本新书的方式,一本我以前从未读过的书,一本让我惊讶不已的书。

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

这就是为什么我所有的图画书都存在的原因:它们似乎都是由一个简单的、情绪乐观的故事情节改编而成的。

I have gone to for years, always finding the one book I wanted and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.

多年来,我一直在寻找一本我想要的书,然后又找了三本我不知道自己想要的书。

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

如果没有一群愚蠢的人作伴,一个聪明的人往往会不知所措。

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

为了生活,我们给自己讲故事。

A fool will laugh when he is drowning.

傻瓜溺水时会笑。