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- There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means…
- A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
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- The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United… — Michael Bloomberg
- A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa
- I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"… — Gregory Rabassa
- The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks
- The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole… — Alma Guillermoprieto
- There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and… — Peter Newmark
- The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig
- As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the… — David M. Brown