"I find so much writing colourless, small in……" — George Steiner
"I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right."
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
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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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More Colourless Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes,…
— Georges Perec
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Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless"…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going…
— Don Cheadle
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The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless,…
— Bella Pollen
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or…
— Oscar Wilde
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Thank God that tears are colourless.. Otherwise the pillows would have had revealed many secrets. (':
— Aldyna Threesya
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This is me. I put this in sepia mode. Not just wanted to edit it to be looked more nice.…
— Aldyna Threesya
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I love being oxygen, even it is odourless and colourless but it still useful for us.
— Unknown Author
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Nobody Knows It's An Empty This Smile That I Wear. Nobody knows I'm Crying They Won't See Even My Tears.…
— Pacifiersucker
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