Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  • -- William Styron 威廉·史泰隆

大多数书,就像它们的作者一样,都是为死亡而生;只有少数几本书能说死亡对它们没有统治权;他们活着,他们的影响永远存在。

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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

剑桥是殖民地或自治领人去的地方,他们去卡文迪什实验室研究物理。

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩,而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

作家和政治家是天生的对手。这两个群体都试图按照自己的形象创造世界;他们为同一领土而战。

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

十诫所阐述的是一种策略。这是一种统治策略。

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

任何名符其实的作家都是要么专注于一件事,要么专注于另一件事。

Never judge a book by its movie.

永远不要以貌取人。