A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

  • -- Henry Ward Beecher 亨利·沃德·比彻

读书为伴。它充满了不饶舌的谈话。它以完全的训诲,达到你所羡慕的,却永不追赶你。

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

即使在文学和艺术领域,也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反,如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次),十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page.

我想拉下一本书,把它打开,一页又一页地狼吞虎咽。