A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
这周我读了很多书,但做的很少。事情应该是这样的。那肯定是成功之路。
People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they pay for it.
人们总是看到我写作,问我他们是否能读懂我的作品。答案是肯定的,在我发表之后,他们会付钱。
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
事实上,学习写作可能是学习阅读的一部分。据我所知,写作源于对阅读的高度投入。
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
伟大文学的美妙之处在于,它将读者转变为作家。
Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions
男人喜欢有勇气的女人,因为这意味着他们可以和他一起去追求他的美好梦想和意图
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
正确地说,我们应该为权力而读书。人的阅读应该是人的强烈的生命力。这本书应该是一个人手中的光球。
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
读书时,一场寂寞而宁静的音乐会给了我们的心灵;我们所有的心智能力都将呈现在这种交响乐的提升中。
Books are vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.
书对学习很重要。一半的人不去看足球比赛,但这并不意味着足球就不那么重要了。
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
不要像孩子那样,为了自娱自乐而读书,也不要像有抱负的人那样,为了受教育而读书。不,为了生活而读书。
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
阅读。阅读。阅读。只是不要读一种类型的书。阅读不同作者的不同书籍,从而形成不同的风格。
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
阅读是唯一的方式,通过阅读,我们不由自主地,往往是无助地,进入他人的皮肤,他人的声音,他人的灵魂。
The beauty of Good reads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
好的阅读之美在于,你知道你正在播种的土地上,根据定义和自我选择,每个人都喜欢阅读。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
因此,让我们温柔而仁慈地珍惜知识的手段。让我们敢于读、想、说、写。
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
直到我害怕失去它,我才喜欢读书。人不爱呼吸。
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。
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。