A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Reading
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
只有一代人的读者才能跨越一代人的作家。
No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.
没有人比我更清楚书中有多少废话。
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
如果我总能读书,我就永远不会感到缺少陪伴。
I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
我只是喜欢通过我的声音把文字变成故事。
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
最好的书……是那些告诉你你已经知道的。
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
阅读——远离绝对孤独的最佳状态。
If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job.
如果您的库不是“不安全的”,那么它可能没有做好它的工作。
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
蜷缩在沙发上看书,我能感到无限的活力。
To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.
你去死吧。让你见鬼去吧,让互联网见鬼去吧。
I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
我不怎么看杂志,看书也很讨厌。
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
我在报纸上读了那么多关于我自己的东西,而不是我自己。
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
我个人的爱好是读书、听音乐和沉默。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时,我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外,没有取得任何更大的成就。
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。
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
教育造就了一大批人,他们会读书,但是不会区别什么书值得读。
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
一个读者在他死之前经历了一千次生命。从不读书的人只活一次。
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。