A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
故事
Stories
Stories are a communal currency of humanity.
故事是人类共有的财富。
I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.
我喜欢讲故事。这对我来说是一种乐趣。
A story is ready when it falls from your face.
当一个故事从你的脸上滑落时，它就已经准备好了。
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
没有诗歌，故事就只能在深褐色中讲述。
The stories we love best do live in us forever.
我们最爱的故事永远存在于我们心中。
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
伟大的故事发生在那些能讲故事的人身上。
So many stories are determined before they start.
很多故事在开始之前就已经决定了。
I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.
我喜欢通过跳舞和唱歌来讲故事。
In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves.
在我们告诉自己的故事中，我们告诉自己。
You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
如果你没有故事，你就什么都没有。
Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
故事不会改变，只有他们所生活的生活才会改变。
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
想象力的故事往往会让那些没有想象力的人感到不安。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.
有些故事是真实的，但也有很多不是——你必须让它过去。
There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
我在收音机里讲老掉牙的故事是不会长久的。
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
当然，如果我们能讲一些让人生病的邪恶故事，我们也能讲一些让人健康的神话。
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
讲故事有一个伟大的传统，它有几千年的历史，讲国王和他们宫殿的故事，这正是我想做的。
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我不知不觉地，自发地学会了讲讽刺故事的艺术。
I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.
我只是想把这些和我父亲一起成长的故事汇编起来，我想让人们能够独自享受这些故事，也想把整本书作为一个整体。