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Author - George Steiner
Quotes by : George Steiner
memory
What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough
books
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
fame
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
linguistics
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
language
When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.
Learned
I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.
kafka
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man....
diversity
The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication....
Father
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could....
language
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is....
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