A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
我去了一家书店，问售货员:“自助区在哪里?”她说如果她告诉我，就会违背初衷。
Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
哭一场，自有它的道理。但是你迟早要停下来，然后你仍然要决定做什么。
We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.
我们相信在这个国家存在着大量的以低价购买智能书籍的读者群，并把一切都押在了这上面。
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
我在书堆中长大，结交了许多看不见的朋友，他们的书页仿佛是从尘土中撒下的，他们的气味我一直带在手上，直到今天。
To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.
对于森佩尔先生，一本书所能拥有的最好的朋友:你为我打开了世界之门，并教我如何通过它们。
For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.
我一时心烦意乱。书总是这样对我……我喜欢奶油色的书页，墨水的味道，所有被锁在里面的秘密。
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
人的愚蠢来自于对每件事都有答案。小说的智慧来自于对每件事都有疑问。
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。
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。
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。
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了，那么你可以为孩子们写。
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.
致我所有的图书管理员朋友，书籍的冠军，生活之家的真正魔术师。没有你，这位作家就会湮没在尘土中。
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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。
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。
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。
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。
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。
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
如果我们遇到一个智力超群的人，我们应该问他读什么书。