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George Steiner

George Steiner

American Critic

Born: Apr 23, 1929

Age Believe Every Language Me You

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There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. George Steiner

Noise Culture Something Wrong Terribly

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

Hope Risks Writing Judge Sometimes Find Small Take Wrong Unwilling Stylistic Am Goes Often Much Means Right

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. George Steiner

Silence World Language Translation Every Would Without Inhabit

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest. George Steiner

Teacher Priest Learned Rabbi Means Early

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

War Peace Men Air Seems More Than Many Suffocating

The age of the book is almost gone. George Steiner

Age Book Gone Almost

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. George Steiner

Men Indifferent Leaves Which Them

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

Writing Try Own Once Those Critics General Scholars Heading Like Hand Very Fiction Teachers Who Twice Lives

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge. George Steiner

Knowledge You Age Will Every Too Tell Responsible Critics Am Opponents Spread Done Anymore Far Specialized Thin

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

Me Reward Tremendous Students Invite Continents Five Who Chairs Now

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