"Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

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“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”
“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community for example, another country or historical period. ... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”
“Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.”
“How is error possible in mathematics?”
“To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.”
“One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.”
“Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.”

Source : Eddie Huang (2013). “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir”, p.4, Spiegel & Grau

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