John Felstiner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
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In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.
-- John Felstiner
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Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
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Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
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It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.
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All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
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One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
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