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Author - George Steiner
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memory
What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough
fame
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
language
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
Hurry
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The....
poetry
We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks....
Speak
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And....
laws
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....
story
There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them,....
Music
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could....
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