So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

  • -- Annie Dillard 迪拉德

所以一个作家写了很多书。在每一本书中,他都有意提出几个紧迫而生动的观点,随着书的形式变得更加坚实,他牺牲了其中的许多观点。

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I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.

我被书吸引住了,就像被一位我从未见过、也严重失踪的母亲的有力臂膀吸引住了一样。

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

学习读书就是点燃一团火;每一个拼出来的音节都是火花。

I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.

我无法说服她,如果我带着一本书,我并不孤独。

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

的经典。这是一本人们赞美却不读的书。