A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Reading
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
学习读书就是点燃一团火;每一个拼出来的音节都是火花。
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
我只读传记、玄学和心理学。我可以编出我自己的小说。
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
书的一个伟大之处是有时有一些奇妙的图片。
There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.
没有什么比坐在床上，喝浓茶，读书更好的事情了。
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
当作家死后，他们变成了书，这毕竟是一个不错的化身。
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.
如果你没有时间去阅读，你就没有时间(或工具)去写作。
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
读书就相当于用别人的头脑思考，而不是用自己的头脑思考。
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.
阅读以一种无法解释的方式扰乱了我的大脑。它使我快乐;什么的。
Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.
勇气是在没有恐惧或恐吓的情况下执行任务的能力。
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
大量的印刷品已经把阅读变成了一种吞咽而不是品味的过程。
I won't be sad too often, if they bury me in the library with bookworms in my coffin.
如果他们把我和书虫一起埋在图书馆的棺材里，我也不会经常感到悲伤。
This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn't be worth buying or reading.
这本书不存在。即使有，也不值得购买或阅读。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着，呼吸着语言。
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
通过阅读圣经，我是如此的新生，所有的自然似乎在我周围和我更新。天空似乎一片纯净，一片湛蓝，树木一片翠绿。整个世界充满了上帝的荣耀，我感到脚下有火焰和音乐。
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。
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我真的有很多梦想，我想其中很大一部分是因为我有机会读了很多书。
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。
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
有权势的人没有时间读书;不读书的人，不配得权柄。