The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

Famous Quotes / George Steiner

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George Steiner: "The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave."

Quotations about

Accept	Adolescent	Antiquated	Bandy
Broken	Caught	Clenched	Condescend
Conventions	Cries	Cruel	Cultural
Despise	Discourse	Enslave	Even
Exchange	Fraud	Freakout	Graffiti
Grammars	Illiteracies	Insurgent	Linguistic
Literate	Momentarily	Nonsense	Resolutely
Silence	Stagehappening	Strategic	System
Values	Violent	Words

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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave. - George Steiner