Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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