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Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. — Gunter Grass
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough… — Michael Cunningham
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11. — Sibel Edmonds
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. Â If that isn't… — Jacque Fresco
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal. — Paul Valery
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings… — Utada Hikaru
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their… — Utada Hikaru
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the… — Okakura Kakuzo
Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best researchers, clinicians and… — Rick Hansen
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship… — Paul Monette
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages! — Faiz Ahmad Faiz
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal… — Gaston Bachelard
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its… — Donna Jo Napoli
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell… — Ronald Harwood
Structure is translation software for your imagination. — James Scott Bell
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time,… — Bianca Jagger
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in… — David Bellos
Every act of communication is an act of translation. — Gregory Rabassa
The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way… — Alan Watts
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written… — Gilbert Murray
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a… — Samuel Johnson
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… — Harry Mathews

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