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

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There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

George Steiner

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

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When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

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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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We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

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Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

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Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

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