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Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.
接受批评。如果你不把你的工作交给别人批评，也不接受别人的批评，也就是说，你要认真地思考和关注它，那么你永远都不会进步。
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。
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
在所有的教授都为我们尽了最大的努力之后，我们获得知识的地方就是书本。当今真正的大学是一所藏书的大学。
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
那些我们熟悉但并不拥有的旧书横过我们的道路，邀请它们自己过来。新书试图用诱人的标题和诱人的封面每天引诱我们。
My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
我的经验告诉我，那些特别擅长经商的人之所以如此，不是因为他们知道什么，而是因为他们对更多知识的贪得无厌的需求。
When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.
当我终于找到了那本正确的书时，那种感觉是强烈的:它在我身上炸开了一个洞，使我的生活变得更加危险，因为我无法控制书中的内容。
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
买书是一件好事，如果你还能买到时间来阅读的话:但是一般来说，买书会被误认为是占用了书的内容。
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
所有优秀的和真正的爱书人都在床上练习愉悦和提高阅读的兴趣。没有一本书是可以被欣赏的，除非它被睡过，被梦过。
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
两个人真的解放了我的思想;一个是维特根斯坦，另一个是伯克。我读伯克之前，他是一个世俗的圣人，在所有人都读他之前。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
我能想到的只有一种情况，那就是男性和女性都努力比平时读得更好。而是当他们坠入爱河，读情书的时候。
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.
你知道当你看书然后睡着的时候，你在看书，看书……突然你发现你的眼睛闭上了?我一直都是这样的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A word after a word after a word is power.
一个字接一个字就是力量。
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。
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
一个人应该按照他的爱好去读书，因为他把读书当作一种任务，这对他没有什么好处。
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。
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
每一个懂得读书的人都有能力使自己变得伟大，使自己的生活方式多样化，使自己的生活充实、有意义、有趣。
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
读一千本书，你的话就会像河流一样流淌。