When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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