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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

  • -- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce 詹姆斯·布莱斯，第一子爵

一本书的价值是由你能从书中带走什么来衡量的。

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I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

在我职业生涯的开始，我很难出版我的书，因为编辑们担心如果他们的名字和我联系在一起，人们会怎么看他们。

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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

在所有的教授都为我们尽了最大的努力之后，我们获得知识的地方就是书本。当今真正的大学是一所藏书的大学。

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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。

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

我不能容忍你到处走动欣赏的艺术。一本书要么是强盗，要么是反叛者，要么是人群中的一个人。

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