A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
太多时候，感觉来得太快，等待的想法往往来得太晚。
So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.
只要地球上还有无知和苦难，这样的书就不会没用。
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
这些事情有些是真的，有些是谎言。但它们都是好故事。
Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
阅读当然是枯燥的工作，需要进一步的休息和消耗。
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
书就像一面镜子。如果驴往里看，你不能指望天使往外看。
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
图书馆是关于书的。书没有颜色。他们不关心谁会读。
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
我只读传记、玄学和心理学。我可以编出我自己的小说。
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
这是我写的第六本书，对于一个只读了两本书的人来说，这并不坏。
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
书的一个伟大之处是有时有一些奇妙的图片。
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
当作家死后，他们变成了书，这毕竟是一个不错的化身。
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
书是一面镜子:如果一只猿猴往里看，使徒几乎不可能往外看。
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
当涉及到书籍和朋友时，最好只有几个，但都是好朋友。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Literature is news that stays news.
文学是保持新闻的新闻。
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视，我就去另一个房间看书。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着，呼吸着语言。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
没有比读书更忠实的朋友了。
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。