Quote by Robert Fitzgerald
There must of course be a relationship between translating and mak

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just dont know. – Robert Fitzgerald

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The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. Thats worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess Ill split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded. – Robert Fitzgerald

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Translation
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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. – Robert Fitzgerald

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Imagination
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasnt as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people. – Tea Leoni

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Id had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time – a Lancashire girl. I thought: Its a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didnt I realize it? – David Thewlis

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God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends. – Addison Mizner

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