Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
JOHN BERGERYou can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
More John Berger Quotes
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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