A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
我宁愿读一本平庸的书，也不愿浪费时间和别人闲聊。
Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.
书能让你飞起来，不像我吃之前在背上钉的鸡翅。
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
无论是在书中还是在生活中，你都需要读上几页才能了解一个人的真实性格。
I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.
我完全赞成卖书，但是当有人把我的房子烧了的时候，我就不卖书了。
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
我仍然记得父亲第一次带我去遗忘书籍的墓地的那一天。
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
我喜欢身边有书给我灵感——让我大脑的语言部分开始工作。
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
最好的书不只是提供信息，而是激发读者去了解自己。
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
书籍和电影就像苹果和桔子。它们都是水果，但味道完全不同。
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
多少城市在我追求书籍的征途中向我展现了自己!
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
现在，书籍可以在交付格式化的手稿后的几天内上架，而且通常是这样。
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
书有一种独特的方式，能在特定的时刻停下时间，并说:“我们不要忘记这一点。”
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
我奶奶总是说，上帝创造了图书馆，所以人们没有任何借口做傻事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
如果一本书写得好，我总是觉得它太短了。
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。
A book tightly shut but is a block of paper.
一本书紧紧地合在一起，不过是一张纸。
A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.
一本没有文字的书，就像一场没有吻的爱情;它是空的。
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
一本成功的书不是由书里的内容组成，而是由书中遗漏的内容组成。
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
书籍真正的目的，是引导头脑开始独立思考。