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John Berger

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Add All Cutting Daily Future Mean Media Modernism Past Presently
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Buy Buyer Envy Herself Imagine Meant Product Spectator
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
JOHN BERGER

Art Common Differentiate More People Power Rare Sometimes Strange Theatre Urgent
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Chosen Emigration Experience Forced Metropolis National Time Village
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Choices Ethics Future Itself Mankind Men Priorities
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Again never One Shall Single Stories Story Told
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Almost Being Certainly Certainty Need Painting Pianist Something
Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Alone Carry Century Chair Clothes Heart Later Learn Like Live Poem Poet Read Want
It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Life Loss More Period Rest Suffer Together
Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Become Commodity Everything Exchangeable
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Confine Difficulty Dog Dream Human Imagination Live Materialist Philosophy Practice Strict
You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
JOHN BERGER

Bureaucrat Greater Illusion Impersonal Interest Observe Others Power Themselves
We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Enclose Follow Inside Message Order Ourselves Song
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
JOHN BERGER

Charcoal Drawing Erase Fantastic Partly Range Use White Wrase
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Artist Discovery Drawing Literally Phrase Slick True
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.
JOHN BERGER

Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young

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