"Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second."

-- Lawrence Venuti

#Play Quotes #Receiving Quotes #Analysis Quotes

“Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.”
“What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.”
“I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.”
“It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.”
“I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.”
“It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.”

Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.270, Princeton University Press
“We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.”
“The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.”

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