#ran

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#cigarette #every #few #first #gasoline

I will open an era of grand national unity. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#grand #i #national #national unity #open

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#big #big ones #exchange #favors #friendship

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#advance #against #albeit #brought #classical

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative writing #creative writing programs #exist #france #idea

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#different #different way #equally #how #i

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#down #good #grandfather #had #i

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#fact #go #i #imaginative #kids