A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.
我总是读。你知道鲨鱼是怎么游泳的吗?我是这样的。如果我停止阅读，我就会死。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯，把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
我写了一本书。这将使一些人感到相当震惊。他们认为我不会读书，更不用说写字了。
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
一本好书会使你心情沉重。它是一个锚，阻止你起床，再喝一杯杜松子酒和奎宁水。
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
他只学了一半的阅读艺术，而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
对你的批评要友善、体谅……写一本好书和写一本坏书一样难。
Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.
解剖一本书就像理解生活一样。你必须找到一种方式来诠释生活，否则你会发疯的。
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
自传是一本书，一个人写自己的生活，它通常充满了各种无聊的细节。
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
一本好书是主灵宝贵的生命之血，经过防腐处理，为来世珍藏。
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
我们从不停止阅读，虽然每一本书都有结尾，正如我们从不停止生活，虽然死亡是肯定的。
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
在电话簿上占有一席之地是很容易的。难的是占据某人的心;知道你真的被爱着。
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
当我在监狱里的时候，我被那些深奥的书迷住了。托尔斯泰的那些废话——人们不应该读那些东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
那些被世界称为不道德的书，是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
除了狗，书是人类最好的朋友。狗的肚子太黑了，没法看书。
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。
My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
我心目中的美好时光就是创造一些东西，读一本好书。
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
我们成为什么样的人，取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
我不在乎他们怎么处理我的书，只要支票兑现就行。