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“A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)”
― Peter Newmark, Manual de traducción (Linguistica / Linguistic)

“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.”
― Henry Gratton Doyle

“There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.”
― Peter Newmark, Manual de traducción (Linguistica / Linguistic)

“Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.”
― Günter Grass

“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”
― Nataly Kelly, Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World