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Book Quotes by George Steiner
- The age of the book is almost gone.
- Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
- He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of…
- The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
- Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum…
- What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?
- Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or…
- Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
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