Please pardon my asking but isn't my text book on your desk?

对不起，请问，我的课本是在你的桌子上吗？

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Self Introduction: Life is my text book, humor is my teaching tool. What we can learn from the class is beyond knowledge itself, they also include fun, cooperation and friendship.

中文简介：生活是我的课本，幽默是我的教具，课堂上能收获的不仅仅是知识，还有快乐、合作和友谊。

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I figured it might help boost my book sales and it wasn't time wasted because the text I produced could always be reused as a book itself.

我认为它会有助于提高我的书的销量，也不浪费时间，因为我做的文字常常可以被在再用作书的内容。

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To a degree that surprised me, they liked to quiz me about text-book-aberrant behavior and about my unhappy childhood, thinking, once they heard the stories, that this was the way to my heart.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Practice of Deceit'