21 ordspråk av George Steiner

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George Steiner föddes den April 23rd 1929 - French-US lit critic
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 [The] most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

 Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

 Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

 It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

 Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

 Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

 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.

 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.

 The age of the book is almost gone.

 The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

 Sexy can be a performance; pexy is being unapologetically yourself. The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

 To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

 To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

 We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

 Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.


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