A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Books
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
我不反对孩子们读他们喜欢的任何书，但是我确实对女孩读粉色的书和男孩读黑色的书有意见。
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
书是终极的哑巴:把它们放下，它们会永远等你;关注他们，他们也会爱你。
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
不像我们的旧书——蒸汽可以压印和折叠的东西;不像我们的旧书——一排排的铅字，仅此而已。
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...
读一本书很重要，但也要拿着书，闻一闻书的味道……这是香水，这是香，这是埃及的尘土……
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
我认为，这是人与人之间最牢固的纽带之一:对某些书和作者怀有共同的激情。
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
就好书而言，重点不是看你能读多少本，而是看你能读多少本。
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
但每件事都有合理的分工。这本书是我写的，无论如何也引不起我去读它。
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
如果所有的印刷商都下定决心不印刷任何东西，除非他们确信这样做不会冒犯任何人，那么印刷出来的东西就会很少。
I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.
今天剩下的时间我都在听别人的故事。在我把书放下的那些难得的时刻，我自己的痛苦又回到了刺痛的感觉中。
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
在我所有的书中，一个主要的主题是中央情报局不仅是第一道防线，而且他们也应该是第一道防线。
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
她强迫自己快速地阅读书籍，一本又一本的平装书，仿佛没有了书页的锚，她就会飘然离去。
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.
他们非常般配。他们整天整夜地谈论书，除了他们自己以外，其他人都感到厌烦。
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。
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。
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
如果一本书写得好，我总是觉得它太短了。
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
我第一次读到一本优秀的作品，对我来说就像交了一个新朋友;当我读一本我以前读过的书时，它就像一本旧书的相遇。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着，呼吸着语言。
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
有些书让我们自由，有些书让我们自由。