We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

  • -- Warren Zevon 沃伦·泽方

我们买书是因为我们相信我们在买时间来阅读它们。

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Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

很多时候,孩子不能让他们的父母犯错,因为他们必须和他们一起生活,因为他们必须爱他们。当你年轻的时候,你不能骑着你的大轮子去看最好的西部片。你必须住在那里,你必须弄清楚。

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

两个人真的解放了我的思想;一个是维特根斯坦,另一个是伯克。我读伯克之前,他是一个世俗的圣人,在所有人都读他之前。

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

我认为,对我们有效地处理我们现在的问题的能力来说,没有什么比理解前人的教训更重要的了。

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

你相信快乐来自于你曾经快乐过的地方,但事实上它是以我们自己为中心的。

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

除非我们买书的钱比买口香糖的钱还多,否则我们永远不会成为一个文明的国家。

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

阅读所有的好书就像与过去几个世纪最杰出的人交谈。

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

如果你总是想着昨天,就不会有一个更好的明天。

That's what this country needs -- more books!

这就是这个国家所需要的——更多的书!