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The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

By Paul Goodman
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

By Paul Goodman
It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

By Paul Goodman
Few great men could pass Personnel.

By Paul Goodman
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

By Paul Goodman
Few great men could pass personal.

By Paul Goodman