Way Quotes by George Steiner

2 Way quotes by George Steiner

When navigating the twists of language and meaning, George Steiner maps out a distinctive way forward. This selection pulls from his critical essays and lectures, where he dissects narrative structures and the moral dimensions of storytelling. Anyone interested in the philosophy of literature will appreciate his precise, often provocative, insights.

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I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or…

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

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