If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

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。

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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

我们是科技时代的孩子。我们已经找到了简化日常工作的方法。印刷不再是复制书籍的唯一方式。然而,阅读它们并没有改变……

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

我过去常常告诉我的写作学生,他们必须写他们希望能找到的书,因为这样他们渴望和渴望的书就会存在。

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

一个人隐藏的东西并不比他发现的东西更有价值。一个人对自己隐藏的东西并不比他允许别人发现的东西更有价值。

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

一个人可以把最高权威的庄严声明集合起来,写一部科学的历史,把最高权威的庄严声明集合起来,写一部科学的历史,把最高权威的庄严声明集合起来,写一部科学的历史,把最高权威的庄严声明集合起来,写一部科学的历史。

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

历史上从来没有一个过着安逸生活的人留下一个值得记住的名字。

Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

即使在最热的火里也有一些水。我的魔法的对立面。

How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.

一个人真正有时间读多少书,就买多少书,这是什么意思?

The true poem rests between the words.

真正的诗在字里行间。