I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

我不记得读过的书,就像我不记得吃过的饭一样;即便如此,他们还是让我这么做了。

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Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

除非你读过书,否则书是不存在的。这是一个双向的过程——你边读边写,填补空白。你发现了它,把这些标记放在一起,如果你不这么做,它们就只是标记。

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

限制媒体就是侮辱一个国家;禁止阅读某些书籍就等于宣布居民不是傻子就是奴隶。

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

向我展示一个读者家庭,我将向你展示那些改变世界的人。

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

买书是一件好事,如果我们也能买时间来阅读。