A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherazade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
人们想要讲述一个故事，就像山鲁佐德一样，为了不死。这是人类最古老的欲望之一。这是一种拖延死亡的方式。
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
对你写的东西充满激情，相信你有能力传达永恒的想法，不要让任何人告诉你你能做什么。
I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.
我意识到不读书的人是存在的。但就像我知道有人不呼吸不吃饭一样:我无法想象这样的生活。
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
限制媒体就是侮辱一个国家;禁止阅读某些书籍就等于宣布居民不是傻子就是奴隶。
Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.
书。人们不知道书有多漂亮。它们在你手指上的味道。当你用语言点亮一切时，它是多么明亮。
Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create realities over and over.
每个人都基于自己的信念创造现实。这些信念是如此强大，以至于它们可以一次又一次地创造现实。
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
想知道写日记的对象是谁是件很有趣的事。可能是对自己身份的神秘化身。
I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded – unless I read the book.
我喜欢新书的味道，但我更喜欢吸入新鲜的墨水瓶和胶水。它们让我更加头昏眼花——除非我读过这本书。
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
一本书是读者和读者之间的合作，最好的情况是，这是一个像其他任何故事一样的爱情故事。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
文学是一种艺术，它能发现普通人身上不平凡的东西，用平凡的语言表达不平凡的东西。
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
如果我的孩子长大后成为那种认为装饰主要是建造足够的书架的人，我会非常满足。
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
而书，他们提供了一个希望——一个完整的宇宙可能会从书皮之间打开，掉进那个宇宙，一个人就得救了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
当我们不得不呆在原地的时候，阅读给了我们一个地方去。
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
一个普通人可以用两千本书把自己包围起来，这样，他在这个世界上就至少有了一个可以快乐的地方。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
没有道德或不道德的书。书要么写得好，要么写得不好。
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
所有的好书都有一个共同点——它们都比真实发生过的书更真实。