A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
我没有任何学术背景，但我住在一个大学城，我认识一些人，他们并非没有伪装。镇上有个想法，如果是欧洲的东西就好了。
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love
如果你想在一年中的某一天向所有人表达你对“你爱的人”的真正关心，我认为这是非常愚蠢的。我讨厌这种商业主义。一切都是人为的，与真爱无关
We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant), but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of ‘sense’ of what is going on.
我们喜欢有很多细节的书，这些内容本身并不是完全相关的(或者实际上根本不相关)，但是如果仔细阅读，就能对正在发生的事情提供一种“感觉”。
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.
一本书就像一个泵。它不会给你任何东西，除非你先给予它。你用你自己的水启动水泵，你用你自己的力量操纵手柄。你这样做是因为你期望得到的比你付出的多。
All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
其他所有的书都在问:“它是什么样的?”“二战对诺曼底的小孩来说是什么样的?对一个人生中第一次有工作的女人来说，工作是什么样的?”黑人和白人是什么感觉?
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。
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
除非你读过书，否则书是不存在的。这是一个双向的过程——你边读边写，填补空白。你发现了它，把这些标记放在一起，如果你不这么做，它们就只是标记。
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
在一所玻璃厂质量好的学校里，根本没有闭卷考试这种事。学生们被要求拿出笔记，打开书。没有什么是禁止向老师或其他学生求助的。
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
我父亲一生中大部分时间都失眠。所以在他五岁的时候，我整晚都和他一起醒着，看糟糕的电视节目，或者我们躺在同一张床上，当他读他最新的间谍小说或推理小说时，我读我的漫画书。
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
当我们阅读一个故事时，我们会沉浸其中。这本书的封面像一个屋顶和四面墙。接下来要发生的事情将发生在故事的四面墙之内。这是可能的，因为故事的声音使一切成为自己的。
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
当读者进入一本诗集，他或她进入一个世界，在那里梦想把过去变成适用于现在的知识，在那里幻想把现在塑造成未来的非凡可能性。
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
很多人想要写作;他们不想写作。换句话说，他们希望看到自己的名字出现在一本书的封面上，而他们微笑的照片出现在书的背面。但这是工作结束时的情况，而不是刚开始的时候。
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
没有书的房间就像没有意义的生活。
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 declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!
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。