"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread"

-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#Translators Quotes

“If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.”
“One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.”

Source : "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.
“The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.”

Source : "Is Labrador GOP immigration key?" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.
“A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.”
“I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.”

Source : Stephanie Klein (2009). “Moose: A Memoir”, p.33, Harper Collins
“Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.”
“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?”

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