"I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way."

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Ann Goldstein

#Thinking Quotes #Editors Quotes #Training Quotes

“Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.”
“Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.”
“Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.”
“Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.”
“I'm not looking for sympathy at all.”
“What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?”
“Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.”
“I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.”

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