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• A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by…
• A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
• I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"…
• Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in…
• Every act of communication is an act of translation.

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