“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
George Steiner
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“The age of the book is almost gone.”
George Steiner
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“The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.”
George Steiner
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“To many men… the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
George Steiner
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“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
George Steiner
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“Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.”
George Steiner
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“Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.”
George Steiner
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