Famous quotes containing the word steiner:
“Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“The variables are surprisingly few.... One can whip or be whipped; one can eat excrement or quaff urine; mouth and private part can be meet in this or that commerce. After which there is the gray of morning and the sour knowledge that things have remained fairly generally the same since man first met goat and woman.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)