A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.
坚持读、想、做、写! 文字不停地把他们的朋友介绍给你。
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
无论你什么时候读一本好书，世界上总有一扇门会打开，让更多的光线进来。
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
我们说，每个人都应该读书，但我们的行为就好像只有那些有特殊才能的人才应该写作一样。
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
阅读是写作之后的一种活动:更顺从、更文明、更理智。
Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.
失明是最糟糕的事情，让我不再读书写字是一种折磨。
Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.
没有什么比读到太晚，看了两三页就睡着更糟糕的了。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
我确实想到，好的文学作品的效果可能和酒精一样令人头晕目眩。
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
阅读是走向未来，但没有人知道它会是什么。
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
阅读音乐对我来说是一种天生的厌恶。它使音乐像数学一样。
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
阅读是一种快乐，是一种迫切需要的逃避，我不是为了学习而阅读，我是为了阅读而阅读。
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
当你为它做好准备时，在某个地方或其他地方，你会发现什么是你需要的书。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
'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。
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。
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
书是飞机、火车和道路。它们是目的地，也是旅程。他们都回家了。
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
读书不思考，犹如吃饭不消化。
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
不管你认为自己有多忙，你都必须找时间读书，否则你就会陷入自己选择的无知之中。