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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. - Virgini

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Writing
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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Dreams
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. – Virginia Woolf

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Money
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. – Harry Mathews

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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

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Translation

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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Translation

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. – Edith Hamilton

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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. – Benjamin Franklin

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When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver. – Joe Theismann

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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. – Muriel Spark

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