A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

  • -- Christopher Lasch 克里斯托弗.拉什

一个把“怀旧”变成文化交流中有销路的商品的社会,很快否定了过去的生活在任何重要方面都比今天的生活更好的说法。

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It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

例如,随着计算机行业变得越来越重要和繁荣,追溯其在视觉、理想主义、创造力、浪漫和纯粹乐趣方面的衰落,是很有启发性的。

It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.

是头脑和心脏。我两个都喜欢吃。我一直想成为一名演员。但文化和智力方面的东西总是让我兴奋。我不想让它过去。

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing.

这对我在情感上、心理上和精神上的影响——照镜子而不感到羞耻——对于不复发非常重要。

I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

如果我们没有交换的话,我不明白我的签名是什么意思。

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

我必须写那些感到诚实的人,但也要推动我们的文化球向前。

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

任何东西的价格都是你为它付出的生命的数量。