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Literary critic

George Steiner is an esteemed literary critic, born on April 23, 1929. His work spans a wide range of literary fields, including novels, poetry, drama, and philosophy.

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Famous George Steiner Quotes

“For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.”

Believe Humans Has Beens Human Beings

Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.”

People Believe Humans Use Seems Hate Written Speech Forgiving Torture Bless Naive Astonishment

Author:George Steiner

“I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.”

Men Believe Reason Use Remember Individual Language Tongue Relevant Seducing Fluent

Book:My Unwritten Books

Source: My Unwritten Books

“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.”

Way Believe Art Asks Language I Believe Difficult Challenges Answers Serious Reader Argument Metaphor Works Of Art Essays Difficult Questions

Author:George Steiner

About the Author

Born: April 23, 1929
Known for: Literary critic
Quotes: 103

Books & Sources

George Steiner: A ReaderRelated source material

Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?Related source material

In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of CultureRelated source material

Language and SilenceRelated source material

Real PresencesRelated source material

After Babel: Aspects of Language and TranslationRelated source material

No Passion SpentRelated source material

The death of tragedyRelated source material

Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhumanRelated source material

A Long Saturday: ConversationsRelated source material

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