Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. -George Steiner

 

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.


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

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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. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active 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. -George Steiner
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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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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

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

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