"Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated."

-- Sergei Lukyanenko

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“One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.”

Source : Kenneth Koch (2012). “On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988”, p.75, Knopf
“Error is created; truth is eternal.”
“It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.”
“People should and do trust me.”
“If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.”
“She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.”
“We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.”
“Love, love will be my strongest weapon”

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