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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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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way…
— Fidel Castro
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God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because…
— Unknown Author
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I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
— Isla Fisher
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The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.
— John Forsythe
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but…
— Oscar Wilde
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Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
— Alain Robert
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If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.
— Mother Teresa
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My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly…
— Lincoln Steffens
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People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
— Amber Tamblyn
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Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.
— Sheena Easton
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It…
— Victor Hugo
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Don't invite me if you don't want me.
— Will Rogers
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