"To starve a child of the spell of……" — George Steiner
"To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness."
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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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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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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 Burial Quotes
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one of 65 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
— Seneca the Younger
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them…
— Roderick Murchison
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Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
— Seneca the Younger
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist…
— Barack Obama
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Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use…
— John Graunt
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... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue…
— Albert Einstein
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Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion…
— William Shakespeare
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As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is…
— Ann Coulter
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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext…
— Jean Anouilh
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when…
— Edward Abbey
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"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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