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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
平装本很有趣，但我发现它永远也取代不了精装本——它的门槛很低。
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
但是对于漫画来说，你是在同时阅读和吸收一个图像，而不是仅仅阅读或看电视。
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。
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
你最后一次读书是什么时候?真相了。而且图画书不算数——我的意思是有印刷品的东西。
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
从我拿起你的书直到我把它放下，我笑得前仰后合。有一天我打算读它。
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
我小时候长过很多青春痘。有一天我在图书馆睡着了。当我醒来时，一个盲人正在看我的脸。
I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.
我比以前读得更多了。我以前觉得它很无聊，但是现在它就像我的小朋友一样，让我忘记了很多事情。
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。
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
能像我爱书一样爱书，能与死人交谈，能生活在虚幻之中，这是多么幸福啊!
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
如果你读了很多书，你就被认为读得很好。但是如果你看很多电视，你就会被认为没有被很好地观看。
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
当我拿到一本我特别喜欢的书时，我是如此的热情，以至于我把它借给了一个再也不会还的人。
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
一本好书随时可以买到;它可能会被倒出并喝上一百遍，但它仍然在那里，以供进一步的吸收。
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。
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
有人看到成年男子在阅读了贴在外面的菜单后逃跑。
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
没有作家的眼泪，就没有读者的眼泪。作家不感到惊讶，读者也不感到惊讶。
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩，而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。
We read to know we are not alone.
我们读书是为了知道我们并不孤单。
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读，在成熟时读，在老年时读，就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。