A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
书并不是绝对没有生命的东西，但书中确实包含着生命的力量，使之像它的后代那样活跃;不，它们确实像小瓶一样，保存着孕育它们的活生生的智慧的最纯粹的效力和精华。
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
从真正意义上说，读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书，我们就能过上更多的生活，过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
长时间、不分青红皂白地读书是一项特别吃力不讨好、令人恼火和筋疲力尽的工作。它不仅包括赞美垃圾，还包括不断地对那些没有任何自然感觉的书做出反应。
How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
这样度过一个晚上是多么愉快啊!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!要是我有了自己的房子，要是没有一间漂亮的书房，那才叫可怜呢。
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
书是一种脆弱的生物，它经受着时间的磨损，它害怕啮齿动物、大自然和笨拙的双手。因此，图书馆员不仅要保护图书不受人类的侵害，还要保护图书不受自然的侵害，并把自己的生命奉献给这场与遗忘力量的战争。
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
在所有获取书籍的方法中，自己写书被认为是最值得称赞的方法。作家真的是那些写书的人，不是因为他们穷，而是因为他们不满意那些他们可以买到但不喜欢的书。
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
我不把我的经历写下来，但我有很好的记忆力。我有很多书，里面有我想到的短语我就写下来。我就是这样写歌的。我需要一行诗，我要通读所有的书，找到它，找到正确的韵律和一切。
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
你有很多关于自助的书，了解自己，做正确的事，吃所谓的正确的食物，甚至包括你书架上的书。人们被鼓励首先审视自己，而不是成为社会的一部分。
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
一般来说，当你真实存在的时候，你的大部分头发已经被爱掉了，你的眼睛掉了，你的关节松了，非常破旧。但这些都不重要，因为一旦你是真实的，你就不会变丑，除非对那些不懂的人。
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。
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
这是我的规则:你总是想支付现金为自己的书,因为如果他们看信用卡上的名字,然后看看这本书的名字夹克,还有这的深刻同情你,你不得不求助于这个。它真的在枯萎。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
你必须写出你想写的书。如果这本书对成年人来说太难了，那么你可以为孩子们写。
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
的经典。这是一本人们赞美却不读的书。
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。
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。
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。