A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
书
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
我们可以假定古腾堡的伟大发明只针对印刷漫画书，从而使电视得到应有的重视。
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
这本书是我的伙伴——我写这些东西时，我在酒店，远离我通常住的地方。我从来没有打算发表它。
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
使用书籍最成功的方法是像某些人做领主一样为他们服务;学习他们的头衔，然后吹嘘他们的熟人。
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
当然，每个人对一本好书的看法是不同的。对我来说，每一页都让我瞠目结舌，因为它的文字如此新颖。
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
我想我的计划是写诗，出版书，以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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。
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
如果我以前没有读过一本书，无论它是昨天出版的还是三百年前出版的，无论从任何意义上说，对我来说都是新的。
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
这就是我们的生活，远离了公众的纠缠，在树木中找到了语言，在奔流的小溪中找到了书籍，在石头中找到了布道，在一切事物中找到了美好。
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
在很长一段时间里，你会遇到一本书，它远远不止是墨水、胶水和纸张，它渗透进你的血液。
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
我会得到一笔贷款，并支付法院要求的钱。但我不会放下我的写作，我仍然认为这是一本重要的书。
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas -- a place where history comes to life.
图书馆，修改了苏格拉底的著名比喻，应该是思想诞生的产房——一个历史重现的地方。
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
我很惭愧地得知，在美利坚合众国，出售一本书可以成为调查的对象，也可以成为刑事调查的对象。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
要写一本真正有趣的书，一个人必须接受很多惩罚。
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。
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.
我的梦想是成为一名作家，能够写出至少一本书供人们阅读。随着我的第一部小说的出版，这个梦想实现了——而其他的一切都是甜蜜的奖励。
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
好朋友，好书和一个昏昏欲睡的良心:这是理想的生活。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。
A book that is shut is but a block.
有书闭卷不阅读，无异是一块木头。