Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

  • -- Alan Jacobs 杰柯布

伟大的著作之所以伟大,部分原因在于它们对读者提出的要求:它们不容易遇到,也不容易评估。

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

一个人,不管是绅士还是女士,如果对一本好的小说不感兴趣,那他一定是愚蠢得令人无法忍受。

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

阅读是进入另一个人的意识。