A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
我到处寻找休息的地方，除了一个人坐在角落里拿着一本小书外，什么也没有找到。
What’s said in silence is best viewed in darkness. I learned that while reading a bowl of Alphabet Soup.
沉默中说的话，在黑暗中才能看得清。我是在看一碗字母汤的时候学会的。
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
现存的十分之九的书都是胡言乱语，而聪明的书则是对那些胡言乱语的驳斥。
I’m always reading books—as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.
我总是在读书——有多少就有多少。我对他们实行定量配给，这样我就永远有供应。
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
是的，阅读是件大事。书是一件大事。但最引人注目的是报纸。
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
阅读是感知的翻译。字母表的惰性符号在人们的头脑中变成了鲜活的意义。
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
她博览众书的名声就像史诗中那位多云的女神的信封一样笼罩着她。
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
一个只有孩子才能欣赏的儿童故事，根本不是一个好的儿童故事。
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
世界上有太多的书不能在一个人的一生中读完;你必须在某个地方划清界限。
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
我读书，我亲近大自然，就像蜜蜂亲近花朵一样，我要的是一种能酿出属于我自己的蜂蜜的花蜜。
The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.
世界的统一是作者的首要任务，因为其中一个世界肯定是禁止公众进入的。
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of this is me!
换句话说，这是一本你用怀疑的呼喊“这是我!”
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
We read to know we are not alone.
我们读书是为了知道我们并不孤单。
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 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。
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
没有道德或不道德的书。书要么写得好，要么写得不好。
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
从真正意义上说，读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书，我们就能过上更多的生活，过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。