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Books
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
当你被解雇，被拒绝，被困在家里，或者不得不在半夜换尿布时，文学作品会变得更丰富。
I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.
我知道书能看见周围的人，他们咬牙切齿，像窗户一样格格作响，讲着故事。
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
你最后一次读书是什么时候?真相了。而且图画书不算数——我的意思是有印刷品的东西。
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
只有船是由书组成的，它的帆上有成千上万的重叠的书页，它漂浮的大海是黑色的墨水。
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?
但是，如果你没有读过每一页，你怎么知道一个结局对角色来说是否真的是好的呢?
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
与你能找到的最高贵的人交往;读最好的书;与有权势者同住;但要学会独自快乐。
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
从我拿起你的书直到我把它放下，我笑得前仰后合。有一天我打算读它。
He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.
他一定看到了她的震惊，因为他说:“你无法击败这本书的力量。但你可以让它为你工作。
I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
我需要文字和打印…我需要像瘾君子一样打印。也许没有它我也能活下去。但我希望我永远不必尝试。
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
一个好故事的荣耀在于它是无限的、流动的;一个好的故事以其独特的方式属于每一位读者。
Books: a beautifully brow sable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
书籍:一种漂亮的黑色眉毛的发明，不需要电力，无论发生什么，都以可读的形式存在。
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
能像我爱书一样爱书，能与死人交谈，能生活在虚幻之中，这是多么幸福啊!
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
在一家旧书店里，你可以头朝后走，找到那些尘封已久的旧书，它们的封面完好无损，里面装的是真正的宝物。
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。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。