A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
There's not enough coffee in the world to fuel all the books I want to write.
世界上没有足够的咖啡来给我想写的书提供燃料。
If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.
如果你读得很快，读完所有的书，也许有些沙子会留在筛子里。
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
一旦你读了一本你喜欢的书，它的一部分就会一直伴随着你。
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
书没有护照。真正的文学传统只有一个:人类。
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
任何一个审查员都是傻瓜。他是个审查员这一事实就说明了这一点。
Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.
我决不会不让一个女人看她的书。这可能会变得很危险。
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
不被一本书冒犯是非常、非常容易的。你只要把它关上就行了。
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
阅读使唐吉诃德成为一个绅士，但是相信他所读的使他发疯。
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.
留下书是更美丽的-有太多的孩子。
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
书籍是蜜蜂，把花粉从一个头脑传到另一个头脑。
To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.
拥有一本书——并且在没有帮助的情况下选择它——就是定义你自己。
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
拥有很多书的人的奇怪之处在于他们总是想要更多的书。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
养成读书的习惯，就是为自己建造一个避难所，使自己免受生活中几乎所有的不幸。
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
书是一种脆弱的生物，它经受着时间的磨损，它害怕啮齿动物、大自然和笨拙的双手。因此，图书馆员不仅要保护图书不受人类的侵害，还要保护图书不受自然的侵害，并把自己的生命奉献给这场与遗忘力量的战争。
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
从火、水、时间的流逝、疏忽的读者和审查人员的手中，我的每一本书都逃过一劫，讲述了它的故事。
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
书籍是心灵的镜子。