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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."
"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
Explore more quotes by George Steiner
"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
"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."
"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
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