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Reading
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
我会做一些事情，比如坐上出租车说:“去图书馆，然后踩上去。”
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
我能在读书的时候快乐地读书，这是一种莫大的福气。
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
费米实验室的负责人十岁的时候就开始读一些惊人的故事。
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 aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
大声朗读意味着不跳绳，不略读，不开门见山。
Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.
你的状态改变了。你的名字改了!你是一个新人。
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
有些书太熟悉了，读起来就像回到了家。
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
所有的芭蕾舞，所有的阅读，所有的音乐。那是我的世界，我的内心世界。
I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.
我无法说服她，如果我带着一本书，我并不孤独。
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
等待把男人变成谷仓里的熊，女人变成口袋里的猫。
I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.
从我能够阅读起，我就爱上了图书馆的这种灾难。
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
有人看到成年男子在阅读了贴在外面的菜单后逃跑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new.
爱不是一块木头，一动不动的坐在那里。它必须像面包一样;不断改造，不断创新。
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
一个人应该按照他的爱好去读书，因为他把读书当作一种任务，这对他没有什么好处。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
当你老了，头发花白，睡意朦胧，在炉火旁打盹时，请取下这本书，慢慢地读，梦见你曾经眼神柔和，阴影深沉。
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。
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
如果你死后不会被遗忘，要么写一些值得读的东西，要么做一些值得写的事情。