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"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"
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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
Humor
"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
Power
"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
Reality
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
Dream
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
Space
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
Movies
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
Decision-Making
"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."
Problems
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
Reading
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."
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"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"
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"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
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"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."
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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
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"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"
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"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."
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"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."
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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."
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