"Translation is the art of failure."

-- Umberto Eco

#Art Quotes #Translations Quotes

“I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.”

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“In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.”
“The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.”
“All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.”
“A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.”
“Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.”
“I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.”
“A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.”

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