
一直认为,读书是一件投资最少,但回报率却最高的事情。有时候有些书我们看过忘记了,但在某一个时刻,比如写作或者与人交谈的时候,突然映入脑海,灵光乍现,那种欣喜只有爱读书的人才能体会。
今天是八月份立秋后的第一天,天气有点阴沉,据说有台风和暴雨已经在飞奔而来的路上。在国家图书馆的阅读室,虽然天气炎热,但每天都是爆满,年过花甲的老人,准备考研的学生,还有喜欢阅读的小学生,他们都在认真地读书,那种认真的样子看了让人动容。所以,看一个国家或者民族的未来会怎样,我觉得应该去书店或者图书馆这样文化类的公共场所。在知识更新迭代日新月异的时代,对知识的尊重,对书籍的渴望,才是一个人、一个国家、一个民族进步的源泉吧。

分享一下今天在外文阅览室读的一本书,书名叫做“No Two Persons Ever Read the Same Book”。这本书的名字很新颖,就像苏格拉底说“一个人不能两次踏进同一条河流”,这本书也在启示我们,为什么没有两个人阅读过同一本书。我想大抵是因为虽然有形的纸质书或电子书是相同的,但每个人对于书的理解是不同的。
分享一下书中提到的几位名人关于读书与写作的名言。
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen, paper and no telephone or wife.
—Arthur Evelyn (1903-1966,British writer)
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
—Truman Capote(1924-1984,American writer)
In a word, literature is my utopia.
—Helen Keller(1880-1968, American writer)
I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
—Edgar Allen Poe(1809-1849, American writer and poet)

Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?
—Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887,American writer)
I hate books, they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau(1712-1778,French philosopher)
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
—Frank Kafka(1883-1924, German-language writer)
Without words, there would be no history, without writing and without books, there could be no concept of humanity.
—Herman Karl Hesse(1877-1962,German novelist)
Some books should be tasted. Some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
—Francis Bacon (1561一1626, British essyist)

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