尼爾·蓋曼
十大后現(xiàn)代作家之一
世界不一定要這樣。事情可以不同。
Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them.
每個(gè)人內(nèi)心都有一個(gè)秘密世界。我是說(shuō)，世界上所有的人。每個(gè)人。無(wú)論他們?cè)谕饷娑嗝捶ξ逗蜔o(wú)聊，他們內(nèi)心都有難以想象的、壯麗的、美妙的、愚蠢的、驚人的世界。不僅僅是一個(gè)世界。有數(shù)百個(gè)。
I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed.
我從未認(rèn)識(shí)過(guò)任何人是他們看起來(lái)的樣子；或者至少，只是他們看起來(lái)的樣子。
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
書(shū)籍是很好的禮物，因?yàn)樗鼈兝锩姘苏麄€(gè)世界。
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."
在你合適的年齡讀到的故事永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)完全離開(kāi)你。你可能會(huì)忘記是誰(shuí)寫(xiě)的或者故事叫什么名字。有時(shí)候你會(huì)忘記具體發(fā)生了什么，但如果一個(gè)故事觸動(dòng)了你，它會(huì)一直伴隨著你，縈繞在你腦海中那些你很少去的地方。
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."
你擁有的獨(dú)一無(wú)二的東西就是你自己。你的聲音，你的思想，你的故事，你的愿景。所以寫(xiě)作、繪畫(huà)、建造、玩耍、跳舞和生活，只有你能做到。
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."
我希望在即將到來(lái)的這一年里，你會(huì)犯錯(cuò)誤。因?yàn)槿绻阍诜稿e(cuò)誤，那么你就在創(chuàng)造新事物，嘗試新事物，學(xué)習(xí)，生活，推動(dòng)自己，改變自己，改變你的世界。你在做你以前從未做過(guò)的事情，更重要的是，你在做一些事情。
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
童話故事比真實(shí)更真實(shí)：不是因?yàn)樗鼈兏嬖V我們龍存在，而是因?yàn)樗鼈兏嬖V我們龍是可以被打敗的。
"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."