“ Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. ”
- Sir John Denham- Copy
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“ I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable — any real insight or broad human sentiment. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ In the final analysis, the bottom line for everybody to remember here is this is not going to be, you know, an Iraqi version of America. ”
- Dick Cheney- Copy
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“ A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation. ”
- John Morley- Copy
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“ A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. ”
- Ezra- Copy
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“ As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
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“ Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. ”
- Harry Mathews- Copy
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“ To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. ”
- Paul Goodman- Copy
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“ Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat…where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ I still have the original tapes that had the BASIC that we brought from Boston to Albuquerque that had the first versions of BASIC on them. ”
- Paul Allen- Copy
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“ They have the biggest audience of the year. And what we watch is the modern version of a 1950s variety show. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
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“ The history of the versions is a history of doctrine and dispute. ”
- Margaret Mitchell- Copy
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“ We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ This is what competition is all about,... Sure, we want new versions of Windows to be popular. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it. ”
- Brian Harvey- Copy
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“ He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to become a fake version of my own father. ”
- Hugh Laurie- Copy
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“ We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation. ”
- Robert Vaughan- Copy
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“ But, you know, as you get older, my God, the parts get more varied. There's a lot of fun to be had doing a lot of different things. ”
- Alan Bates- Copy
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“ We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. ”
- Kenneth Burke- Copy
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