A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
这需要某种真诚的信念——但我有这种信念——去相信,那些阅读和反思的人,很可能会带着慷慨和真理来评判事物。
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
书籍,就像人一样,不能减少到材料的成本。书籍和人一样,一旦你了解了它们,就会变得独特而珍贵。
I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
我很想看到我的一本书的一个好剧本,在这些年的动画和连环漫画的续集中,我写了很多,但是没有一个是很合拍的。
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
没有书的房子就像没有窗户的房间。如果一个人有能力买书,他就没有权利不让孩子们读书而把他们抚养成人。
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
那些我们熟悉但并不拥有的旧书横过我们的道路,邀请它们自己过来。新书试图用诱人的标题和诱人的封面每天引诱我们。
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
我过去常常告诉我的写作学生,他们必须写他们希望能找到的书,因为这样他们渴望和渴望的书就会存在。
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
这本书一劳永逸地教会了我,借助文字你可以多么容易地逃离这个世界!你可以在书中找到朋友,非常好的朋友。
There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.
世界上有很多很多类型的书,这很有道理,因为有很多很多类型的人,每个人都想读一些不同的东西。
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
那么多人走进你的生活,又离开了你!成千上万的人!你必须把门开着,这样他们才能进来!但这也意味着你必须放手!
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
是书教会了我,最折磨我的是那些把我和所有活着的人,或者曾经活着的人联系在一起的东西。
When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.
当我终于找到了那本正确的书时,那种感觉是强烈的:它在我身上炸开了一个洞,使我的生活变得更加危险,因为我无法控制书中的内容。
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
买书是一件好事,如果你还能买到时间来阅读的话:但是一般来说,买书会被误认为是占用了书的内容。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯,把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
读一千本书,你的话就会像河流一样流淌。
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。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。