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George Steiner

"Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me."

Source : George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber

George Steiner

#Dream Quotes #Song Quotes #Infidelity Quotes

“The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.157, Vintage
“Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.”
“How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.”
“Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.”
“But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.”

Source : John Ankerberg (1992). “The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena”, Harvest House Pub
“Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.”
“If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.”
“Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.”

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