George Steiner



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"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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"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."

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"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past."

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

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