Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

  • -- Joseph Campbell 约瑟夫·坎贝尔

神话是公众的梦想,梦想是私人的梦想。

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

广告中的伟大创意远不止是认可分数、评分和所有其他肤浅的成功指标的总和;这是在神话的领域,测量是不能适用的。

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

人们的梦想是由他们整天所做的事情构成的。就像追兔子的狗会梦到兔子一样。是你所做的造就了你的灵魂,而不是相反。

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

我们现在要做的是让广大公众意识到,我们所看到的不是一个历史事件,而是——我不得不说得很残酷——一个骗局。

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

印出来的每一美元都不应该代表私人银行家的债务。它应该代表对共同利益的投资潜力,代表我们国家的共同需要。

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

有些人看着已经存在的东西,问为什么。我梦想着从未有过的事情,并问为什么不呢?

Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving.

许多人仍然认为许多使用公共服务的人不值得。

I am attracted to myths.

我被神话所吸引。