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• George Steiner:

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

• George Steiner:

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

• George Steiner:

  The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

• George Steiner:

  My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who l

• George Steiner:

  Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far

• George Steiner:

  Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

• George Steiner:

  Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. A

• George Steiner:

  I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, p

• George Steiner:

  I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it

• George Steiner:

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