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" And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it. "

" An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation. "

Vladimir Prelog

" As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. "

Boris Pasternak

" Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world. "

" Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. "

Jonathan Lethem

" For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? "

" I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten. "

" If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. "

" I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation. "

" I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation. "

" I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings. "

" I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament. "

" I want my words to survive translation. "

" Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. "

" Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original. "

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

" The original is unfaithful to the translation. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn't 'Son of Ann'... It comes from 'Canis' - as in 'canine' - as in 'dog!' My name - Rory McCann - means Rory Hound, Rory Wolfhound. "

" To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing. "

" Translation is an act of recreation. "

" Translation is at best an echo. "

" True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

" Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original. "

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