Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

  • -- Arlie Russell Hochschild 霍奇柴尔德

我在想,会不会有这样一个人,我们可以雇他来搞清楚我们想要什么?在我对我们生活中亲密部分的外包进行研究时,我是否已经到了最后一个关键时刻,还是已经到了荒谬的市场前沿?

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I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'

我总是对自己太苛刻,以至于不能表现得像我已经成功了一样,甚至不能享受我所取得的任何成功。我总是把自己想象得比现在更高,现在依然如此。每次成功的时候,我都会想,‘这很好,但我应该去那里!’

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

当我追逐金钱时,我从来没有满足过。当我的生活有了目标,专注于奉献自己和生活中的一切时,我就成功了。

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

亲密关系是文学探索、理解和描述的金矿。

Film is a very intimate medium.

电影是一种非常亲密的媒介。