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I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I ... - MORE I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

George Steiner

school

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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

George Steiner

indifference

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

George Steiner

modern times

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

George Steiner

peace

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The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the g... - MORE The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.

George Steiner

criticism | art

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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are... - MORE The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

George Steiner

popular culture

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical ... - MORE It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

George Steiner

past, the

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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of t... - MORE The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of this musical esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

George Steiner

popular music

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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

George Steiner

biography

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

George Steiner

propaganda | words

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