"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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"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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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence."

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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."

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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

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"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."

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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The wonder of words."

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"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."

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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."

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"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

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"I allow my intuition to lead my path."

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"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."

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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."

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"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."

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"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

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"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."

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"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

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