The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
JOHN BERGERThe spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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