Your life is just like a story book, because you exist in time, and time is a creation, it's all already happened.

你的生命就象一本故事书，因为你存在于时间里，而时间是一个创造物，它已经发生了。

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A book I read long ago revealed to me the secret to a happy life: find out what you like to do, and then find someone who will pay you to do it.

早之前读过的一本书告诉我，幸福生活的秘密在于：找到喜欢做的，并找到人为此付钱给你。

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I had also once come across a phrase about a book “lying like a poleaxed wildebeest in the middle of my life.

此外，我还经常在书上看到一个短语：“我到中年时，要像一只被雷倒的角马般躺下。”

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Like Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas was based on a book that many considered to be unfilmable because it dealt more with ideas than it did with action.

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The real interest lies elsewhere, in the parts of Mr Stiglitz's book that are in effect a memoir of what life was like as an economic adviser, and indeed a considerable intellectual, in the bruising and often brutal world of Washington politics and policymaking.

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He spends the first half of the book justifying his redefinition of life in a lengthy narrative that combines personal memoir, Zen-like musings and scientific explanations.

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