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“I’m a sceptic. I think decolonization must be a violent process.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Per aspera ad astra.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“Robin stared at him, alarmed. In Chinese, the phrase huǒyàowèi* meant literally ‘the taste of gunpowder’; figuratively, ‘belligerence, combativeness’. His brother smelled of gunpowder. He reeked of violence.”
― Babel
― Babel
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