By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
JOHN BERGERAll publicity works upon anxiety.
More John Berger Quotes
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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