It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

-- Joan Didion 琼·狄迪恩

我从伯克利毕业后过了几年才敢开始写作。这种学术心态——无论如何对我来说有点肤浅——已经开始消退。

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I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

我从来没有觉得自己在学业上完全够格。我总是觉得我必须付出巨大的努力不让自己失望。所以我非常努力地工作，但在那个时候它很适合我，因为我没有做太多其他的事情。

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Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

钱是基本的主题。就像水、食物、空气和住房一样，它影响着一切，但出于某种原因，学术界认为这是一个低于他们社会地位的话题。

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