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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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

书能真正改变我们的生活:读过书的人的生活,写过书的人的生活。读者和作家都发现了他们从未了解过的世界和自己。

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

看这张纸就像把贝壳举到耳边,被人类的怒吼淹没。

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

我所受的教育是一种自由,我可以不加选择地阅读,而且一直睁大眼睛。

You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.

你不能把书烧了。你只能买新的。