Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERWhat is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
More John Berger Quotes
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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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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