- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
Translation Quotes
What survives between languages.
These translation quotes move between the technical and the personal — a scientist's precise definition of mirror-image objects, and a writer's hope that their words survive the trip into another language, a quiet test of real Communication.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Translation is the art of failure.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
- Mark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
- Echo
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- Nov 07, 2020
Translation is at best an echo.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020