Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

  • -- Italo Calvino 伊塔罗·卡尔维诺

阅读是走向未来,但没有人知道它会是什么。

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

一本书就像一个泵。它不会给你任何东西,除非你先给予它。你用你自己的水启动水泵,你用你自己的力量操纵手柄。你这样做是因为你期望得到的比你付出的多。

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves, they became chapters in it themselves.

书籍书写了我们的人生故事,当它们堆积在我们的书架上时,它们自己也成为了其中的章节。

A writer concocts a different story for every reader.

作家为每个读者编造一个不同的故事。

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

耐心是一种美德,而不是一种恶习。