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Remembering George Steiner on his birthday 🎂
📷 Peter Marlow, 2005
"An intensity of outward attention — interest, curiosity, healthy obsession — was Steiner’s version of God’s grace."
- Lee Siegel Image
George Steiner's study by Peter Marlow, 2005
"Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely."
George Steiner was born on #ShakespearesBirthday, also #WorldBookDay Image
Peter Marlow's shot of walking sticks & umbrellas at the Cambridge home of George Steiner, 2005 Image
Coffee with George Steiner & his wife Zara ☕️☕️
📷 Peter Marlow, Cambridge, 2005 Image
"I don't know what music does to me. I know it does *everything* to me."
- George Steiner
📷 Antonio Olmos, 2015 Image

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