A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
如果我们用一本书对读者的影响来衡量它的重要性，那么伟大的儿童书籍就会突然出现在排行榜的前列。
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.
我七岁时爱我的人喜欢我的书，而我七岁时不喜欢我的人不喜欢我的书。
Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.
作家在这里不是为了随大流。我们是来挑战的。我们在这里不是为了舒适——我们在这里，真的，是为了改变现状。这是我们的工作。
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
书，我不知道你在书里看到了什么。我能理解一个人读它们，但我无论如何也看不懂为什么人们要写它们。
God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.
上帝啊，他想，她的眼睛是那么明亮，闪烁，深邃，充满希望，所有这些东西眼睛都在书里，但从来没有在生活中，而她是他的。
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
没能读到好书，既削弱了我们的视野，也强化了我们最致命的倾向——即相信此时此地就是一切。
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
书中的宝藏比所有海盗在金银岛上掠夺的财宝都要多，最重要的是，你可以每天享受这些财富。
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。
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
感受最美丽的生活意味着阅读一些美丽的东西，随时准备在语言的流动中领悟诗歌的突然闪现。
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
我喜欢想象，在我生命的最后一天，我的图书馆和我一起崩溃，这样即使我不在了，我仍然会和我的书在一起。
You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
今天的你和五年后的你是一样的，除了两件事:和你交往的人和你读的书。
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
同样，如果一个人不不断地努力抹去自己的个性，他就写不出任何可读的东西。好的散文就像一扇窗户。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
一本成功的书不是由书里的内容组成，而是由书中遗漏的内容组成。
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
那些被世界称为不道德的书，是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视，我就去另一个房间看书。
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。