Quotes by George Steiner

"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."

By George Steiner

"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the h"

By George Steiner

"Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other culture"

By George Steiner

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

By George Steiner

"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enter"

By George Steiner

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