"Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do……" — George Steiner
"Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow."
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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 Hollow Quotes
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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
— John Ashbery
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it…
— Lord Byron
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
— James Rachels
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his…
— Primo Levi
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
— Abdul Kalam
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
— Plutarch
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
— Annie Dillard
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Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the…
— Leo Buscaglia
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole…
— Charles Dickens
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of…
— Pablo Neruda
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