"Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gregory Rabassa

#Jobs Quotes #Fun Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better”
“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”

Source : 1963 A Summer Birdcage, ch.7.
“Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.”
“Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.”
“There's a king in every crowd.”
“I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.”
“It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.”
“If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.”

Source : Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. May 17, 2012.

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