It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

  • -- Lewis Thomas 路易斯·汤马斯

把人类想象成一个摇摇欲坠、容易犯错的精巧装置,总是需要观察和修补,总是处在被撕成碎片的边缘,这是一种扭曲,带有某种极不忠诚的东西。

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To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

探究行为的无意识决定因素,然后用他们的术语来定义一个人,完全忽略他的公开行为,这比完全忽略无意识更扭曲。

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

拍完照片后,他们把我带进录音室,然后我又尖叫了大约五分钟,只是不停地尖叫,然后他们把这段话剪下来加进去。

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, i want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

我认为完美是丑陋的。在人类创造的东西中,我想看到伤疤、失败、混乱和扭曲。

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

当你想到优惠券的时候,你会想到一个妈妈从报纸背面剪下优惠券。