"I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself."

-- Michael Cunningham

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“Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.”

Source : ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”
“We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.”
“Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.”
“The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.”
“Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.”
“It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.”

Source : The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, p. 407, 1910.
“And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.”

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