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There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

~George Steiner

Topics: Culture Noise Something Terribly Wrong

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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

Topics: Deal Language Larger Much Only Part Presumably Reality Rest Restricted Segment Silence Special

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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

~George Steiner

Topics: Air Many Men More Peace Seems Suffocating Than War

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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

~George Steiner

Topics: Casts Genius Light Man Ordinary Ordinary Man Quite Shadow Understand Way

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My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

~George Steiner

Topics: Critics Fiction General Hand Heading Like Lives Once Own Scholars Teachers Those Try Twice Very Who Writing

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Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

~George Steiner

Topics: Age Am Anymore Critics Done Every Far Knowledge Opponents Responsible Specialized Spread Tell Thin Too Will You I Am

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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

Topics: Act Anger Baffled Bitterness Books Cleverness Creation Fills Hurry Infinitely Me Notion Occasion Our Privileges Reads Us

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I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

~George Steiner

Topics: According Believe Differently Every Fluent Her His Individual Language Man Possesses Reason Relevant Remembers Several Tongues Use Woman

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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

Topics: Am Find Goes Hope Judge Means Much Often Right Risks Small Sometimes Stylistic Take Unwilling Writing Wrong I Am

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I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

~George Steiner

Topics: Chairs Continents Five Invite Me Now Reward Students Tremendous Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: April 23rd, 1929

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