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Books
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
他们缺乏暗示力。当一本书缺乏暗示的力量时，不管它触及心灵的表面有多深，它都无法深入其中。
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
每一位读者都发现了一种魔力，可以使他们牢牢地占有一页，而这一页通过魔法变得仿佛从未读过一样，清新而完美。
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
读书为伴。它充满了不饶舌的谈话。它以完全的训诲，达到你所羡慕的，却永不追赶你。
Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom.
读一本书就像有一根稻草插进作者的灵魂，吸一口又一口，而不会降低智慧的水位。
The luminous plectrum of books can be said to become a portion of the rectum, since after so much eager reading not a thing remains at home.
书的发光体可以说是直肠的一部分，因为经过那么多热切的阅读之后，没有一件东西留在家里。
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。
Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.
一旦你读了太多垃圾畅销书，你就会开始寻找一些有实质内容的东西，一些试图定义宇宙的东西。
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
没有书籍，上帝是沉默的，正义是休眠的，自然科学是站着不动的，哲学是瘸腿的，文字是哑的，一切都与黑暗有关。
I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
我从来没有变成蜜蜂——我从来没有被妈妈追过，也从来没有遇到过鬼。但是我书中的很多观点都是在现实生活中提出的。
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
小说是艺术，艺术是对混乱的胜利……庆祝一个世界，它就像一个令人困惑和巨大的梦想，在我们周围展开。
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
书籍是最宁静、最永恒的朋友;他们是最平易近人、最睿智的顾问，也是最有耐心的老师。
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
电视和漫画书可能是，并将继续是，在我的生活中最大的影响。它对每个人的生活影响最大。
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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。
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.
一本书，一本真正的书，是作者的忏悔室。因为，不管他愿不愿意，他的性格直接或间接地背叛了他，使他不得不公开表达自己内心深处的感情。
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。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
过去是一个陌生的国度;他们在那里做的事情不一样。
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。
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。