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What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?
George Steiner
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George Steiner
Age: 90 †
Born: 1929
Born: April 23
Died: 2020
Died: February 3
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Francis George Steiner
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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
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I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.
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The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
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The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's 'The Devils' no less than the art of Giotto or the 'Passions' of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.
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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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Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.
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The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.
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A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.
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Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
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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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When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?
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Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.
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Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed the claims of the ideal. These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
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Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.
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Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
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