A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
圣经中完全没有幽默是所有文学作品中最奇特的事情之一。
Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden.
书是通往其他维度的大门，在那里一切皆有可能，没有什么是被禁止的。
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
书籍的设计是由作者的思想控制和塑造的现实模式。
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
很少有好书被写出来的原因是很少有人会写任何东西。
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
他经常嫉妒那些没有读过他最喜欢的书的人。他们面前有这样的幸福。
Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.
书籍总有办法进入我们的生活，通常是在我们最需要它们的时候。
I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I'm no one.
我沉浸在自己的想象中，这样当现实世界告诉我我什么都不是的时候，我可能会成为一个人。
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become.
一个人的第一个成人书架上的书是我们想成为什么样人的地质床。
If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.
如果你真的想成为一名作家，没有人能阻止你——如果你不这样做，也没有人能帮助你。
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
书籍能在你的头脑中点燃火焰，因为它们有点燃的想法，有火柴的艺术。
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
刚开始的时候，我的短篇小说写得不好，因为我一直想写书。
I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.
我确实借过书，但我必须有一点选择性，因为我的旁注太有罪证了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
贝琪回到她的椅子上，脱下外套和帽子，打开书，又一次忘记了这个世界。
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
人类所做的、想过的或曾经做过的一切，都像魔法一样保存在书页之中。
Literature is news that stays news.
文学是保持新闻的新闻。
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
对美的感知是一种道德测试。