A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
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。
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
从火、水、时间的流逝、疏忽的读者和审查人员的手中，我的每一本书都逃过一劫，讲述了它的故事。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
限制媒体就是侮辱一个国家;禁止阅读某些书籍就等于宣布居民不是傻子就是奴隶。
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
也许书中有一种神秘的归巢本能，能把它们带给完美的读者。如果这是真的，那该多好啊。
A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case for every reader. I prefer inundation.
很多人认为慢慢阅读可以让你更好地思考，但并不是每个读者都是这样。我更喜欢泛滥。
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
一本书是读者和读者之间的合作，最好的情况是，这是一个像其他任何故事一样的爱情故事。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
文学是一种艺术，它能发现普通人身上不平凡的东西，用平凡的语言表达不平凡的东西。
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors,and the most patient of teachers.
书籍是最宁静、最恒久的朋友;它们是最易接近、最具智慧的顾问，也是最有耐心的老师。
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
我们通过眼睛互相了解对方，从解剖学上讲，眼睛是我们大脑的延伸。当我们与某人目光相遇时，我们会看到对方的内心。
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
每一位读者都发现了一种魔力，可以使他们牢牢地占有一页，而这一页通过魔法变得仿佛从未读过一样，清新而完美。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
通过阅读圣经，我是如此的新生，所有的自然似乎在我周围和我更新。天空似乎一片纯净，一片湛蓝，树木一片翠绿。整个世界充满了上帝的荣耀，我感到脚下有火焰和音乐。
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
头脑需要书籍，就像剑需要磨石一样，如果它想保持锋利的话。
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 never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。