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"His pleasures--he mentions a secluded house in a remote part of France--have a Midas touch; his praise stiffens them into gold. His regrets are for not having dedicated himself entirely to fiction or for spreading himself too thinly. His regrets, you feel he feels, are finer than other people's satisfactions. The virtue of this memoir, in fact, does not lie in the charm of its voice but in a brilliance that can make charm irrelevant."Steiner, George is the author of 'Errata An Examined Life' with ISBN 9780300075038 and ISBN 0300075030.
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