George Steiner
French-born American Critic, Novelist
Lived from: 1929 - 2020
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 23 april 1929 Died: 3 february 2020
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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.
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
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