Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  • -- Charles Kingsley 查尔斯·金斯利

除了活着的人,没有什么比一本书更奇妙的了。

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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

我不把我的经历写下来,但我有很好的记忆力。我有很多书,里面有我想到的短语我就写下来。我就是这样写歌的。我需要一行诗,我要通读所有的书,找到它,找到正确的韵律和一切。

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

读书是一种思维敏捷的工作,要求很高,在理想的条件下终于产生一种忘我的境界。这给了阅读体验一种无与伦比的崇高和力量,任何其他形式的沟通。

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

也许最接近完美的是天文学家最近在太空中发现的巨大的绝对空洞。如果什么都没有,怎么会出问题呢?

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

当艺术在丑闻的绚丽色彩中茁壮成长时,文学却在悲剧的黑暗土壤中茁壮成长。

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

但是对于作家来说,忧郁并没有什么错。这是写作中很重要的一种颜色。

I cry at the end of every book.

我在每本书的结尾都会流泪。