Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

你带到火边,随手拿在手里的书,毕竟是最有用的。

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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

我的父母渴望我接受他们自己从未接受过的教育。他们不能引导我去读特定的书,但他们鼓励我去读,我随意地、强迫性地去读。

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

我的书是挽歌,从某种意义上说,它们是对一个国家的颂歌,就连我有时也认为,这个国家可能已经不复存在,只存在于我的记忆和想象中。

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

我失去了一点激情……我不想说我失去了激情。

Fire and straw soon make a flame.

火和稻草很快就会生起火焰。