The age of the book is almost gone. - George Steiner - Quotesmemo.com

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Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

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George Steiner

The age of the book is almost gone.

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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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The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

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It's time to sleep your way to the top.

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Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

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Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.

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Garry Winogrand

I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.

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