The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
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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.George Steiner
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
George Steiner
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
George Steiner
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.
George Steiner
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
George Steiner
Those last three minutes were brutal and broke my heart.
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