"One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gregory Rabassa

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“But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.”
“Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments”
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

Source : Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”
“Relationship Principle 1 In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.”
“Must protect my little pockets of happiness.”
“When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.”
“Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.”
“Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.”

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