A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Books are vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.
书对学习很重要。一半的人不去看足球比赛，但这并不意味着足球就不那么重要了。
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
感谢上帝赐予我们书籍;他们是远方和死者的声音，使我们成为过去时代精神生活的继承人。
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
不再有用的旧书和不再给人带来快乐的老朋友，都不应该被抛弃。
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
童话故事不仅仅是真实的:不是因为它们告诉我们龙的存在，而是因为它们告诉我们龙是可以被打败的。
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
因此，实际上，我一直在写自传， 但我必须把它变成小说，以赋予它可信度。
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
不要像孩子那样，为了自娱自乐而读书，也不要像有抱负的人那样，为了受教育而读书。不，为了生活而读书。
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
你会在树林里找到比在书里更多的东西。树木和石头会教你那些你永远无法从大师那里学到的东西。
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
要实现持久的文学，无论是虚构的还是真实的，作家需要敏锐的洞察力、吸收能力和创造力。
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
但是在晚上，当图书馆的灯被点燃时，外面的世界消失了，只有书的空间存在。
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.
成功不是美德的证明。就一本书而言，迅速获得好评是缺乏实质内容和独创性的假定证据。
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
这就是为什么我所有的图画书都存在的原因:它们似乎都是由一个简单的、情绪乐观的故事情节改编而成的。
In books there’s nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.
书中没有鱼被冰冷的大海所覆盖，也没有星星触摸空间的感觉。对企业不利。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
当我得到一点钱，我买书;如果还有剩余，我就买食物和衣服。
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 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。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
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。
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。