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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with G >> Quotes By George Steiner |
| Quote #1: | "The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform." |
| Quote #2: | "Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive 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." |
| Quote #3: | "It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past." |
| Quote #4: | "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise." |
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