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Discover Eliot Weinberger famous and rare quotes. "Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed..."
Scions of a finer humanity, they have already mocked and reviled our existence on dead worlds, while overtaking and succeeding us. They continue to scorn us on the living worlds from which we have disappeared, and their contempt for us will have no end on the worlds to come.”. ― Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing.
- Elliot: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship. Greg: Well, can't he just beam up? This is REALITY, Greg.
- E.T.: E.T. phone home.
- Elliot: How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
- Michael: Maybe it was an iguana. Elliot: It was NO iguana. You know how they say there are alligators in the sewers? Gertie: Alligators in the sewers.
Translator, essayist, and editor Eliot Weinberger was born in New York City. Known for his penetrating observations, novel juxtapositions, and avant-garde style, he is the author of more than a dozen essay collections, including Angels & Saints (New Directions, 2020), which the Times Literary…
Elliott: They're just gonna cut him all up. Keys : Would you like to spend some time alone with him? [Elliott is left alone with E.T.] Elliott : Look at what they've done to you.
Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages. Weinberger first gained recognition for his translations of the Nobel Prize winning writer and poet Octavio Paz.
