A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
也许这些书能让我们走出半个山洞。他们也许能阻止我们犯同样的愚蠢错误!
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
经常有人会问，你的书是哪一年出版的?我能给出的唯一答案是，在童年。
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
作家喜欢猫是因为它们安静、可爱、聪明，而猫喜欢作家也是出于同样的原因。
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
他明白，有时候你会一头扎进书里，仿佛每一页都是另一个世界的一个洞。
Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.
嗯，我不喜欢第一点，也不知道最后一点。所以我真的希望中间的部分是例外。
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
很明显，书总是与其他书进行对话，有时很亲切，有时则不然。
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
神奇之处只在于书中所言，在于他们如何将宇宙的碎片缝合成一件衣服。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此，让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
这是她一生中唯一一次把书本作为走出牢房的门。他们成了她的半个世界。
We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.
我们不能靠写漫画来谋生，尽管这是一种非常有趣的谋生方式。
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
小说家和胡乱修改写作的人的区别在于:小说家完成他们的作品。
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
正如音乐是有意义的噪音，绘画是有意义的色彩，故事是有意义的生活。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
读书不是为了反驳和驳倒，也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着，呼吸着语言。
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
我们成为什么样的人，取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
这就是我们的生活，远离了公众的纠缠，在树木中找到了语言，在奔流的小溪中找到了书籍，在石头中找到了布道，在一切事物中找到了美好。
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
没有书的房间就像没有意义的生活。