"The age of the book is almost gone." — George Steiner

"The age of the book is almost gone."

— George Steiner

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76 Quotes by George Steiner

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this…
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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