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“Those who hate rain hate life.”
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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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“The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!”
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“Tears are words that need to be written.”
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“It is translation, more than speech itself, which provides incontrovertible evidence of the human capacity to think and to communicate thought.
We should do more of it.”
― Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
We should do more of it.”
― Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Mona’s 2025 Year in Books
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