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R.F. Kuang
“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
R.F. Kuang, Babel

R.F. Kuang
“So, you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as the rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the authors ideology and biases.”
R.F. Kuang, Babel

Jojo Moyes
“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Jojo Moyes
“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone . . . There is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. Just live well. Just live.”
Jojo Moyes, After You

Arthur Conan Doyle
“...I could not wish anything better than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular adventures which were the normal condition of his existence.”
Arthur Conan Doyle

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