The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

  • -- Alfred Hitchcock 阿尔弗雷德希区柯克

平装本很有趣,但我发现它永远也取代不了精装本——它的门槛很低。

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It is increasingly rare for many of us...to believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves. Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.

对我们许多人来说,这种情况越来越少见了……相信人可以贫穷,但诚实,贫穷但值得尊重。贫穷不再是任何人的责任,而是穷人自己的责任。蔑视穷人已成为一种美德。

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

一本书,一本真正的书,是作者的忏悔室。因为,不管他愿不愿意,他的性格直接或间接地背叛了他,使他不得不公开表达自己内心深处的感情。

You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses.

你们蒙召,是要享福,不要下到遭咒诅的地步。

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

如果秘鲁没有人能变得富有,那么就没有人能变得贫穷。

The hard part is putting one word after another.

最难的部分是一个词接一个词。

Build up your faith while starving the fears.

在消除恐惧的同时建立你的信念。