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“The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!”
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“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
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“Tears are words that need to be written.”
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“أظن أن المترجم الجيد ينبغى أن يكون مريضاً نفسياً. هذا الشخص الذى يمنح كامل طاقته وموهبته لحساب شخص آخر. فى رأيى، الترجمة هى أعذب أنواع الجنون، وسنخسر كثيراً - ككتاب - لو تحقق الشفاء للمترجمين.”
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“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
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