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Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.
- George Steiner
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The age of the book is almost gone.
- George Steiner
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I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.
- George Steiner
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I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.
- George Steiner
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I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.
- George Steiner
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
- George Steiner
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It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.
- George Steiner
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There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
- George Steiner
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
- George Steiner
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
- George Steiner
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I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
- George Steiner
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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
- George Steiner
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
- George Steiner
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#Human
#Important
#She
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
- George Steiner
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#Way
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
- George Steiner
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Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
- George Steiner
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