A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Reading
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
你不可能指望你的写作能把别人的注意力从你身上移开,除非你的写作已经完成了。
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere.
没有合适的时间和地点读书。当阅读的心情来临时,一个人可以在任何地方阅读。
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
人类所做的、想过的或曾经做过的一切,都像魔法一样保存在书页之中。
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
审查员是尖刻评论的专家。审查官是一个知道的比他认为你应该知道的更多的人。
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
我所受的教育是一种自由,我可以不加选择地阅读,而且一直睁大眼睛。
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。
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
除非我们买书的钱比买口香糖的钱还多,否则我们永远不会成为一个文明的国家。
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
阅读、思考和交谈有不同的规则。写作融合了这三者。
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
看这张纸就像把贝壳举到耳边,被人类的怒吼淹没。
When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.
当一个男人发现这样的女人,他会为她全力以赴,因为他知道她不会让他失望。
It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.
这是这么多年的阅读故事。你离开工作,直到你在电视上看到它。
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
我不记得读过的书,就像我不记得吃过的饭一样;即便如此,他们还是让我这么做了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
我想知道的都在书里;我最好的朋友会给我一本我没读过的书。
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
今天是读者,明天是领导者。
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。
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
我第一次读到一本优秀的作品,对我来说就像交了一个新朋友;当我读一本我以前读过的书时,它就像一本旧书的相遇。
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视,我就去另一个房间看书。