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"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
Money
"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."
Imagination
"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."
Nature
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
Movies
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."
Life
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
Decision-Making
"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
Reality
"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
Beauty
"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."
Problems
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
Constitution
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