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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

我宁愿看时刻表或目录，也不愿什么也不看。它们比一半的小说更有趣。

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As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.

只要女性还在劳动大军中，自己挣钱，自己做决定，男性就必须意识到这种生活方式是存在的——因为它需要两份甚至更多的收入才能实现。你越早处理好你和伴侣的储蓄和消费方式，你们的关系就会越好。

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Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.

许多音乐家会说，他们不在乎钱，但他们必须承诺自己在特定的时间和地点出现，并生产销售的东西，不管他们相信与否。这取决于合同。

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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

刚开始的时候，我有点明白了:你不应该重复成功。你经常会这样做，也许你第一次这么做的时候，它是有效的。你喜欢它。但你被困住了。

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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

我曾经有一朵玫瑰以我的名字命名，我感到非常荣幸。但我不喜欢读目录上的描述:躺在床上不行，靠在墙上倒挺好。

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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

对我来说，卡片目录一直是我工作生涯的伴侣。离开就像离开被抚养长大的房子。

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Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

我们迟早会为了钱而卖光房子。

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