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«Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.»
«The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.»
«[Its sequel, the Odyssey, describes the effort of one of the attackers to return home. It is] the epic of the displaced person, ... The cities are down and the survivors wander the face of the earth as pirates or beggars.»
«There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.»
«The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.»
«This was all about a side piece, a girlfriend and it is my sister who ends up murdered.»
«Those last three minutes were brutal and broke my heart.»
«More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.»
«Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
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chess, exhaustible, focuses, labors, pastimes
«The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
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biographies, oblivion, spasm, spasms, transit
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