A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
在讲述自己的故事方面，男人比我们更有优势。他们的教育程度要高得多;钢笔已经在他们手里了。我不会让书证明任何事情。
I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.
我确实发送关于我的书的信息。很少有人这样买书，但我总是觉得如果他们想要了解更多的过程，他们可以从我的书中得到信息。
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.
书是站着的顾问和传道人，总是在手边，总是无私的;与口语老师相比，他们有一个优势，那就是他们随时准备重复他们的课程。
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
书能真正改变我们的生活:读过书的人的生活，写过书的人的生活。读者和作家都发现了他们从未了解过的世界和自己。
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。
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.
我喜欢图书馆。它让我感到舒适和安全的文字墙，美丽和智慧，在我周围。当我看到有东西可以挡住阴影时，我总是感觉更好。
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
我的父母渴望我接受他们自己从未接受过的教育。他们不能引导我去读特定的书，但他们鼓励我去读，我随意地、强迫性地去读。
Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
大多数普通的超级英雄书籍都是为永恒而设计的;当然，他们中很少有人这样做，但关键是，他们试图把泥巴扔到墙上，希望它能粘上，结果大部分都滑掉了。
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
书是完美的娱乐:没有广告，没有电池，每花一美元就能享受数小时的快乐。我想知道的是，为什么每个人都不随身携带一本书，去寻找生活中那些不可避免的死点。
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...
我们是科技时代的孩子。我们已经找到了简化日常工作的方法。印刷不再是复制书籍的唯一方式。然而，阅读它们并没有改变……
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
杰作不是孤独的诞生;它们是多年共同思考的产物，是由人的身体来思考的，使群众的经历是背后的单一的声音。
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
幸福，你看，只不过是命运的幻觉，是上天为使你相信童话而设计的诡计。但是没有幸福的生活。你只会在书中找到快乐的结局。一些书。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
如果你有一个花园和一个图书馆，你就拥有了你所需要的一切。
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。
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
没有书的房间就像没有灵魂的躯体。
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
书籍是心灵的镜子。