Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  • -- P. J. O'Rourke P.J.O'Rourke公司

如果你死在书中,一定要读一些能让你看起来不错的东西。

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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

所有优秀的和真正的爱书人都在床上练习愉悦和提高阅读的兴趣。没有一本书是可以被欣赏的,除非它被睡过,被梦过。

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

不讨喜的评论在短时间内是痛苦的;那些写得不好的文章是非常非常无礼的。那位评论家没有花时间真正读这本书。

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

读诗的人都听说过燃烧的荆棘,但当你写诗的时候,你坐在燃烧的荆棘里。

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

让别人为自己写了多少页而自豪;我宁愿吹嘘我读过的那些书。