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• The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

  George Steiner

  Ecstasy

  George Steiner (2010). “Grammars of Creation”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

  George Steiner

  Impact, Media, Vision

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

  George Steiner

  Rewards, Students, Chairs

  "Il postino". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2008.

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• Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.

  George Steiner

  Wall, Book, Winter

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• Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

  George Steiner

  Imagination, House, Treasure

  George Steiner (1980). “The death of tragedy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

  George Steiner

  Intellectual, Age, Three

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Art, Laughter

  George Steiner (1998). “Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman”, p.392, Yale University Press

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• The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

  George Steiner

  Art, Drama, Forever

  George Steiner (1980). “The death of tragedy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

  George Steiner

  Pages, Citing, Classic

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.159, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.

  George Steiner

  Poetry, Identity, Naked

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• Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

  George Steiner

  Poetry, Use, Records

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• Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

  George Steiner

  Incessant, Signals

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• My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

  George Steiner

  Teacher, Writing, Hands

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• 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.

  George Steiner

  Writing, Mean, Judging

  "Il postino". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2008.

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• More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.

  George Steiner

  Cities, Income, Debt

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