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"No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking."
"Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and politically, influenced by her own translation practice (she's translated the likes of Kafka, Pessoa, and Sadeq Hedayat into Korean). Her language is simply extraordinary."
"God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people."
"Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends."
"The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes."
"I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes."
"I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad."
"One always likes to do the things for which one has ability."
"Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me."
"Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me"
"I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best."
"At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd"
"The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce."
"youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed."
"It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own"
"There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world."
"I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding."
"Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day."
"I think the only fear that I have in getting married is what if I'm not enough or what if I'm not prepared enough, because I'm the kind of person that likes to be prepared."
"One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling."
