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.
JOHN BERGERTracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
More John Berger Quotes
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Yet 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.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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