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每天，我們應該聽一首小曲、讀一首好詩、看一幅優美畫作，如果可能，講幾句有見識的話。
──德國大文豪歌德
“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
文學大師 陳超明 給你一句話的震撼力 精采內容：
電影
《冰雪奇緣》、《蜘蛛人 2》、《亞果出任務》、《鋼鐵人 3》、《派特的幸福劇本》、《闇黑無界：星際爭霸戰》、《超人：鋼鐵英雄》、《P.S. 我愛你》、《騎士出任務》、《環太平洋》、《美國隊長 2》、《少年 Pi 的奇幻漂流》、《春風化雨》、《地球過後》、《雷神索爾 2》、《福爾摩斯》、《偷書賊》……
小說
《最後一封情書》、《往生者》、《羊毛記》、《米德鎮》、《蒼蠅王》、《科學怪人》、《天真》、《遠大前程》、「傑克‧李奇」系列小說、《艾瑪》、《簡愛》、艾西莫夫《基地》系列、《老人與海》……
戲劇、音樂劇
莎士比亞戲劇《皆大歡喜》、《馬克白》
音樂劇《愛無止盡》、《悲慘世界》、《夢幻騎士》、《西貢小姐》
散文
亨利‧梭羅〈湖濱散記〉、查爾斯‧蘭姆〈舊瓷器〉、愛倫‧波〈詩的原則〉、法蘭西斯‧培根〈論學習〉、瓦特‧裴特〈鑑賞〉、約翰‧紐曼〈大學的理念〉、托爾斯泰〈小冊子〉……
詩
密爾頓〈失樂園〉、史詩〈奧迪賽〉、濟慈〈秋頌〉、佛洛斯特〈雪夜中林外駐足〉、雪萊〈變〉、惠特曼〈草葉集〉、威廉‧布萊克〈毒樹〉、濟慈〈快樂的英格蘭〉、拜倫〈她在美中行走〉、丁尼生〈老鷹〉……
歌曲
克莉絲汀‧阿奎萊拉“Fighter”、席琳狄翁“That’s the Way It Is”、Bruno Mars“Just the Way You are”、地下天堂“The Price We Pay”
名人佳句
比爾‧柯林頓、西默斯‧希尼、愛倫‧佩基
作者簡介
陳超明
英美文學教授，兩屆金鐘獎得主，堅持每天閱讀—題材廣泛而深入的閱讀。
曾著引領台灣英語學習革命觀念書－《英語即戰力》、《全球英語實戰力》。所著《全球英語文法》、《一生必讀的英文小說》、《一生必學的英文寫作》等書，蟬連各大語言學習暢銷排行榜。
近年來至全省校園、公家機關指導英語學習改革、師資培訓、提倡閱讀訓練，是極為難得學術界以及業界都推崇的英語教授。
現任：
實踐大學應用外語系講座教授
政治大學英文系兼任教授
台灣全球化教育推廣協會理事長
漢聲電台「文學之夜」節目製作主持
經歷：
政大英文系系主任
政大英文系教授
政大外語學院院長
政大公企中心主任
個人網站：
www.englishforlife.com.tw
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A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
After all you put me through / You’d think I despise you / But in the end, I wanna thank you /‘Cause you make me that much stronger.
All of life is an act of letting go, but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts....
Although they have the teeth to tear, it is by swish of tail and yearning eyes that they most easily get what they want.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Ask yourself: What would you sacrifice for what you believe?
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice.
The choice was put in your hands for a reason.
Danger is very real, but fear is a choice.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Do you hear the people sing, singing a song of angry men?
Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by Action.
Dreamers look up at the sky; doers keep their feet on the ground. In a world of hustle and bustle, you see the most beautiful scene; you are the doer of dreams.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
For it was certainly an abominable injustice to drown a man who had worked so hard, so hard.
For the literary architecture, if it is to be rich and expressive, involves not only foresight of the end in the beginning, but also development or growth of design, in the process of execution, with many irregularities, surprises, and afterthoughts.
The future belongs to those who know where they belong.
The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality.
Happy is England! I could be content / To see no other verdure than its own; / To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent; / Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment / For skies Italian,...?
He watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
I believe there’s a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride,...
I griev’d when summer days were gone; / No more I’ll grieve; for Winter here / Hath pleasure gardens of his own.”
I have no idea what I am supposed to do; I just know what I can do.
I only know how to fix things.
I think of everything everyone did for me and I feel like a very lucky guy.
I wanted to damage every man in the place, and every woman—and not in their bodies or in their estate, but in their vanity—the place where feeble and foolish people are most vulnerable.
I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I wish from my heart it may do so for many and many a long year to come-- the tradition of genuine warm-hearted courteous Irish hospitality, which our forefathers have handed down to us and which we must hand down to our descendants, is still alive among us.
I’ll give you a million things I’ll never own; I’ll give you a world to conquer when you’re grown.
I’m nothing like the immortal gods who rule the skies, either in build or breeding; I’m just a mortal man.
If I cannot carry forests on my back, / Neither can you crack a nut.
If you’re constantly looking down at your phone, you’re not looking at the world around you.
In a cold night / There will be no fair fight.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once, but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
In my religion, we’re taught that every living thing, every leaf, every bird, is only alive because it contains the secret word for life.
In order to fight monsters, we create monsters of our own.
In the end, when it’s over, all that matters is what you’ve done.
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
It is funny how some distance makes everything seem small.
It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another—but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
But it was not only the earth that shook for us: the air around and above us was alive and signalling too.
It’s hard to find someone with shared experience.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
Love comes to those who believe it.
Love gives you pleasure. And love brings you pain. And yet, when both are gone, love will still remain.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow / Nought may endure but Mutability
Nearly all aircraft accidents are the results of a sequence of events. We call it a cascade.
O Lady! We receive but what we give.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, / So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, / The smiles that win, the tints that glow, / But tell of days in goodness spent.
One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression.
The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
President Lincoln’s struggle to abolish slavery reminds us that enduring progress is forged in a cauldron of both principle and compromise.
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Someday’ is a dangerous word; it is really just a code for ‘never’.
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,...
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
Travelers we are, in this journey of memory. Aboard together we might be, and get off at different times. Still, memory lingers.
But there are limits to what even you can do, Captain, or did Erskine tell you otherwise?
There are no pacts between lions and men.
And these vicissitudes tell best in youth; / For when they happen at a riper age, / People are apt to blame the Fates,...
They taught me the meaning of loyalty that you should never forget anyone that you’ve loved.
A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.
...this and that man, and this and that body of men, all over the country, are beginning to assert and put in practice an Englishman’s right to do what he likes; his right to march where he likes, meet where he likes, enter where he likes, hoot as he likes, threaten as he likes, smash as he likes. All this, I say, tends to anarchy.
And this gray spirit yearning in desire / To follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my quest, to follow that star / No matter how hopeless, no matter how far / To be willing to give when there’s no more to give / To be willing to die so that honor and justice may live.
this world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another...; if we took just five minutes to recognize each other’s beauty instead of attacking each other for our differences.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
We are all patchworks, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment plays its own game.
We are responsible for these people.
We create our own demons.
We don’t realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.
We’re up on a roll and it’s taking a toll / But it’s too late to stop now.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
What if a child dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well.
When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change ‘cause you’re amazing, just the way you are.
Why should a foolish marriage vow, / which long ago was made, / Oblige us to each other now, When passion is decayed?
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep.
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing the humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground, and somehow they’ll still find their way back.
You choose losers because that’s what you think you deserve and that’s why you’ll never have a better life.
You have the grand gift of silence, Watson; it makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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