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“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
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“Writers make national literature, while translators make universal literature.”
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“Translator is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other.
Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors.”
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Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors.”
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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
GTE’s 2025 Year in Books
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