Language can only deal meaningfully with... | George Steiner

Language Rest

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

- George Steiner

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We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

- Neil Tennant

Other quotes by George Steiner

Words Life

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

- George Steiner

Work Man

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

- George Steiner

Majority

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

- George Steiner

Culture Wrong

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

- George Steiner

Vision

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

- George Steiner

Peace Men

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

- George Steiner

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A riot is the language of the unheard.

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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

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Language Years

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Language Want

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

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Language Writers

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

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