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George Steiner has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…
— George Steiner
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In the calmness of the walk, horse and rider can find the time to think and to prepare the quality of the…
— Nuno Oliveira
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When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to…
— James Agee
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A canter is the cure for all evil.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The canter is a cure for every evil.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
— Georgette Heyer
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When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their…
— Mukesh Ambani
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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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