A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

  • -- Norman Cousins 卡森斯

一本书就像一根绳子;它的意义只与它联系在一起的事物有关。

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May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

最后,我想说,我对伟大没有幻想;恰恰相反,我非常谦虚地认识到,在我四十年的生活中,我的生活是一本公开的书,服务于我的建筑师同行和公共利益。

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

一本书好的部分可能只是一个作家偶然听到的,也可能是他整个该死的生活的毁灭,而其中的一部分和另一部分一样好。