A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.
有些事情是可以解决的。有些东西就是太坏了。
Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.
如果你有东西可读，没有什么是真正无法忍受的。
I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.
我不喜欢吸血鬼的书。这些我都不喜欢。
If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
如果你说不出什么好话，那就什么也别说。
Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.
有时候我认为书是唯一值得拥有的朋友。
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
审查员知道，读者是由他们所读的书来定义的。
How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.
你怎么会紧张呢?你没有看见吗?我们在图书馆。
Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.
在别人的生活中，写书总是容易得多。
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
不要仅仅因为开始读一本书就把它读完。
You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
你不会把你的生活投入到你的书中，你会发现它就在那里。
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.
感谢上帝赐予我书籍、音乐和我所能想到的一切。
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
每一本书都是一个独立的世界，我在其中避难。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
没有书的房间就像没有灵魂的躯体。
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
我第一次读到一本优秀的作品，对我来说就像交了一个新朋友;当我读一本我以前读过的书时，它就像一本旧书的相遇。
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
我死的时候，愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的，他的书是被人诵读的。’
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
三思而后行。三思而后行。
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
头脑需要书籍，就像剑需要磨石一样，如果它想保持锋利的话。