"English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Daniel Kehlmann

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“I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.”
“Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.”
“Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!”

Source : Henry Timrod, “Ode:Sung On The. Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead”
“To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.”

Source : "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.
“There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.”

Source : Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity
“She was not a poet. She was a poem.”
“Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.”
“My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.”

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