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.
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
More John Berger Quotes
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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