Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
JOHN BERGERThe heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
More John Berger Quotes
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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