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Books
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves, they became chapters in it themselves.
书籍书写了我们的人生故事，当它们堆积在我们的书架上时，它们自己也成为了其中的章节。
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
先写结尾，然后在开头的句子之前你就知道这将是一本好书。
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
作家写一本书是为了忘记一本书，而读者读一本书是为了记住它。
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
与电脑屏幕相比，书的一个奇妙之处在于，你可以把它带到床上。
I don't write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!
我写书不是为了让你对我着迷。我写这些是为了让你对自己着迷!
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
如果有一本书你想读，但还没有写出来，你一定是写这本书的人。
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
我的叔叔阿姨们不仅没有读过我的书，而且几乎不相信我是一个作家。
We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.
我们都有权拥有自己不同的好恶。想象一下，如果我们都喜欢同样的东西，这个世界会是什么样子。
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
真理比爱情的做作更美。你的善良一定有其可取之处，否则就毫无可取之处。
Have books ‘Happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
书“发生”在你身上吗?除非你的答案是“是”，否则我不确定该怎么和你说话。
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 stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
当一个刻板印象在很大比例的人看来符合它时，它就变成了刻板印象。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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!
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 truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读，在成熟时读，在老年时读，就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。
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。