"When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well."

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Daniel Kehlmann

#Dialogue Quotes #Wells Quotes #Translate Quotes

“After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.”
“Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.”

Source : Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it...”
“The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.”
“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others”
“I feel great identification with the developing world.”
“On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.”
“...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.”

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