When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGERYet 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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 spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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