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335 Translator Quotes

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
Confession End Oneself Tell
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

About Around Book Comic
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

Activity Any Child Children
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
Autobiography Storytelling Writing
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

Africa Bleeding Body Busy
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

African Bondage Exactly Expect
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Art Creating Gardens Imaginary
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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Disease Itself Passion People
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

About Almost Any Himself
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Am Excitement Fabric Governed
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Much Sarcasm Suffering Too
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Hard He Himself Unable
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Superior people never make long visits.

Long Make Never People
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Human Human Nature Middle Nature
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Noun Poetry
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Contagion Make Makes Sickness
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Father Long Make Never
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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There never was a war that was not inward.

Inward Never War
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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Beauty Dust Everlasting Time
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Bondage Impatience Independence
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Been Belief Captive Free
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Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Doubt Everything Explains Nothing
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Always Deepest Feeling Itself
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Calling Category Except I See
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Appears Cross I Can Think
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Back Cannot Critic Cruel
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Against Blunder Former However
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Angry Daily Earnest Falling
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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
Another Death Dozen Man
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Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Surrounded Troops Wandering Were
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Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Aroused Between Cry Enemy
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

Patient Flatterer Ass Sir
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God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

God Makes All things Good
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Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...

Time Extremes Reduces Mediums
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Money Speaks Sense Language
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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Love Ceases Pleasure Secreat
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He knew almost as much as if he had read much.

He Knew Much Read
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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Moments Happy Lover's Worth
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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Here Proof Wit Defence
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Tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress.

Evident Plain Simple Nature
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Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Where No Novelty There
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

You have The words A chance You'll find
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

A case Poems changed The world People's understanding
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Behavior that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Behavior That's admired The path Power among
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All I know is a door into the dark.

I know A door The dark
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So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.

So hope Great Sea change Revenge
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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

Strange Huge nothing We fear
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How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we’re shown?

How perilous To choose To love The life
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