A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
一本书也可以是一颗星星，一团照亮黑暗的火焰，指引我们进入不断膨胀的宇宙。
I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.
我和我的朋友一样喜欢分享我的书，只要求你好好对待他们，并把他们安全地送回家。
I have gone to for years, always finding the one book I wanted and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.
多年来，我一直在寻找一本我想要的书，然后又找了三本我不知道自己想要的书。
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
他知道我爱我的书，就从我自己的图书馆里给了我许多书，这些书比我的公爵领地还要珍贵。
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
书是飞机、火车和道路。它们是目的地，也是旅程。他们都回家了。
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.
如果一个人不愿意经常走动，那么他能在一个房间里装下这么多书真是令人惊讶。
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
如果你只看别人在读的书，你就只能想别人在想什么。
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
她不太关心其他小女孩，但如果她有很多书，她可以安慰自己。
A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!
一个作家如果不能遵循投稿指南，就像一个没有飞机的飞行员……不会走多远的!
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
真理比小说更奇怪，但这是因为小说必须坚持可能性;事实并非如此。
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
书籍和谚语一样，其主要价值来自它们所经过的时代的印记和尊重。
The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.
幸福的第一步是决定你想要什么样的生活。这有点来自经验。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
所有的好书都有一个共同点——它们都比真实发生过的书更真实。
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
我死的时候，愿人说:‘他的罪是朱红的，他的书是被人诵读的。’
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
从火、水、时间的流逝、疏忽的读者和审查人员的手中，我的每一本书都逃过一劫，讲述了它的故事。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
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。