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 BERGERIf everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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