A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
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。
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 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。
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。
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
许多书不需要读者思考，原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。
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。
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!