Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain PerfectionHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 - 148 頁 58 gems of funny, brilliant, wise, and indispensable advice from the prize-winning essayist. |
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It doesnt matter | 1 |
Nobody is thinking about you | 3 |
Let bad enough alone | 5 |
Ignore your enemy or kill him | 11 |
Boo yourself off the stage | 15 |
Yes you did | 17 |
After the age of 30 it is unseemly to blame ones parents for ones life | 19 |
If something is boring you it is probably you | 21 |
Do not attempt to improve anyone especially when you know it will help | 81 |
If they tell you that its a long shotit is | 83 |
Never bring news of slander to a friend | 85 |
Its not about you | 87 |
Never say any of the following | 91 |
If you want to keep a man honest never call him a liar | 93 |
The waitress is not waiting for you | 95 |
Push the wheel forward | 97 |
Stay clear of anyoneother than a clergymanwho refers to God more than once in an hour | 23 |
Swine rules | 25 |
Listen for the word Great | 29 |
Listen for the question What are you talking about? | 31 |
Appearance is frequently reality | 33 |
Be not witty neither shalt thou be clever | 35 |
Pursue virtue but dont sweat it | 41 |
Do not go to your left | 45 |
Everyones work is magnificent | 49 |
Consult everyone on everything and dont forget to send ingratiating notes | 51 |
Strife is better than loneliness | 55 |
And loneliness is better than Eggs Benedict | 57 |
Male and female compatibility rules | 59 |
Run when you hear any of the following in a sentence | 61 |
Never miss an opportunity to do nothing | 63 |
Do not go for Cyranos nose | 65 |
That couldnt be a book | 69 |
Do not keep company with people who speak of careers | 71 |
Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesnt make him wrong | 73 |
Never go to a cocktail party and in any case do not stay more than 20 minutes | 75 |
Envy no oneever | 77 |
Believe everyonealways | 79 |
Dress for duress | 101 |
A long and happy life lasts five minutes | 103 |
Never work for anyone more insecure than yourself | 105 |
The unexamined life lasts longer | 107 |
No they dontand so what? | 109 |
Abjure fame but avoid obscurity | 111 |
Fast and steady wins the race | 115 |
To thine own self be trueunless you would like to be someone else | 117 |
Culture rules | 119 |
If its just a teenyweeny bit wrongdestroy it | 121 |
Never think on vacation | 123 |
Change no more than oneeighth of your life at a time | 125 |
Expect gratitude from everybody for everything | 127 |
Live in the past but dont remember too much | 129 |
Never do it for the money | 131 |
Remember the Amana | 133 |
If you are strange enough they will come | 135 |
Never light the fire from the top | 137 |
The game is played away from the ball | 139 |
Apologize reconcile give help | 141 |
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