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Francis George Steiner (born April 23, 1929), is an influential European-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. George Steiner »
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past. George Steiner »
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. George Steiner »
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform. George Steiner »

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