Top 24 Gregory Rabassa Quotes

#1. When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

Gregory Rabassa

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#2. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

Mike Dooley

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#3. Well, I guess they aren't gay anymore, Liz," Susan said loudly from the direction of the kitchen doorway.
Liz started snickering next to her. "I always knew they were full of shit.

Victoria Michaels

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#4. The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

Rory Stewart

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#5. So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling must shift between two selves, with all the perils of this induced schizophrenia.

Gregory Rabassa

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#6. Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed.

Gregory Rabassa

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#7. I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

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#8. I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.

Gregory Rabassa

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#9. Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

Rick Riordan

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#10. The translator, we should know, is a writer too. As a matter of fact, he could be called the ideal writer because all he has to do is write; plot, theme, characters, and all other essentials have already been provided, so he can just sit down and write his ass off. (p. 8)

Gregory Rabassa

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#11. Every act of communication is an act of translation.

Gregory Rabassa

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#12. A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

Gregory Rabassa

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#13. The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

William Rounseville Alger

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#14. A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

Gregory Rabassa

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#15. I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.

Forest Whitaker

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#16. I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.

Anna Kendrick

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#17. It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle

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#18. I am the alpha. You follow." His extraordinary eyes held Andromeda's. "Not for always. For this."
Andromeda was oddly pleased that he'd clarified his statement. "Until we escape," she agreed

Nalini Singh

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#19. We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

Haruki Murakami

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#20. Fitting in is one of those horrible diseases that turn reasonable minds into sheep-gelatin hive minds.

Alida Nugent

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#21. Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

Gregory Rabassa

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#22. I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.

Paul Lynde

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#23. I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

Bob Hope

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#24. And what we need to take up now,' he said, 'is whips, not swords. The masses have been ruled since time began, and till time ends, ruled they will have to be. It is sheer hypocrisy and farce to say they can rule themselves.

D.H. Lawrence

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