Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
JOHN BERGERThe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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