Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
JOHN BERGEREthics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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