A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
I won't be sad too often, if they bury me in the library with bookworms in my coffin.
如果他们把我和书虫一起埋在图书馆的棺材里，我也不会经常感到悲伤。
Some of the biggest slaps in the face come in the shape of a rectangle stamped novel.
一些打在脸上最大的耳光是在一个长方形盖章小说的形状。
This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn't be worth buying or reading.
这本书不存在。即使有，也不值得购买或阅读。
What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.
作者为一本书带来了什么并不重要，重要的是读者贡献了什么。
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.
书闻起来很香，感觉也好多了。他们有翻页的那种奇妙的感觉。
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
有一本好书应该让你问:作者是怎么知道我的?
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
书可以告诉一个人，他最初的想法并不新鲜。
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
书是给那些没有真实生活的人看的，他想。它们并不是真正的替代品。
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
我有一个非常聪明的母亲。她总是把和我年级相当的书放在家里。
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life".
书是危险的。最好的应该贴上“这会改变你的生活”的标签。
Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos.
如果对话可以像视频一样可以回放和删除，生活将会变得容易得多。
There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.
没有所谓的“没有市场”。有些书只是定位于利基，仅此而已。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
我喜欢在我的书中探索邪恶的人物。
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
凡是有钱的单身汉，总想娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
当我们阅读一个故事时，我们会沉浸其中。这本书的封面像一个屋顶和四面墙。接下来要发生的事情将发生在故事的四面墙之内。这是可能的，因为故事的声音使一切成为自己的。
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。
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
如果我们遇到一个智力超群的人，我们应该问他读什么书。
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
对美的感知是一种道德测试。