A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
JOHN BERGERThe heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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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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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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