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A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
短篇小说完全是另一回事——短篇小说就像陌生人在黑暗中亲吻。
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
他知道我爱我的书,就从我自己的图书馆里给了我许多书,这些书比我的公爵领地还要珍贵。
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
我从来没有读过或幻想过童话故事。我一直都很忙,像个孩子一样,在外面。
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。
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.
如果一个人不愿意经常走动,那么他能在一个房间里装下这么多书真是令人惊讶。
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
如果你只看别人在读的书,你就只能想别人在想什么。
Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive.
书籍是世界上最安全、最能改变思想的东西。但是是安全的;不要边读书边开车。
There is blessedness, fulfillment, upliftment, grace and rest for every genuine member of this God's family.
在这个神的家庭中,每一个真正的成员都有福份、成就、提升、恩典和安息。
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
她不太关心其他小女孩,但如果她有很多书,她可以安慰自己。
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
乱交就像从来没有读过第一页。一夫一妻制就像一遍又一遍地读同一本书。
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
想想看——作家独自写作,读者独自阅读,他们彼此独处。
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
当你翻到最后一页的时候,你知道你读了一本好书,你会觉得好像失去了一位朋友。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
在书中,我不仅游历了其他的世界,而且进入了我自己的世界。
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
当你没有必要读的时候,你所读的决定了当你没有办法的时候,你会成为什么样的人。
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。
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
我们成为什么样的人,取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。
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。
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。