Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
JOHN BERGER
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
More John Berger Quotes
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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