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Chuck LoPresti Chuck LoPresti said: " Cohen translation this time. Stellar through the first few chapters so far. I really loved Burton Raffel's translation but am happy to re-read this as many times as possible to appreciate each translator's take. I forgot about the seemingly imcompreh ...more "

 
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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
“Why frighten little children with the dark when one can quiet them with it and lead them into dreams?”
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Autobiography of a Corpse

Blaise Cendrars
“But me no buts, we're going to make whoopee, I tell you.”
Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine

John  Williams
“He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man.”
John Williams, Stoner

“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder, each moment tripping over itself, to be the first to slice itself up.”
Raymond Quaneau

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
“My life in this pit will soon enter its fifth year. For more than forty-two months, I have thought hate, have lain down with hate in my heart, have dreamed hate and awakened with hate. I suffocate in the knowledge that I am the prisoner of a horde of vicious apes, and I rack my brain over the perpetual riddle of how this same people which so jealously watched over its rights a few years ago can have sunk into this stupor, in which it not only allows itself to be dominated by the street-corner idlers of yesterday, but actually, height of shame, is incapable any longer of perceiving its shame for the shame that it is.”
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

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