"The immense majority of human biographies are a……" — George Steiner
"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
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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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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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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 Biographies Quotes
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one of 333 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers…
— David Bowie
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
— A. S. Byatt
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it…
— Jane Campion
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
— Deepak Chopra
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most…
— Mark Twain
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I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better…
— Charles Babbage
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