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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

John Berger

Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Audience Cinema Deep Individually Nature Ritual Theatre Transport Unknown
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Choice Decision Given Photography Situation
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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Apart Authentic Contribute Labor Poem Poetry Separate Together Violence
A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Everything Meamimgless Object Particular Photograph Recording Result
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Event Given Name Need Occurred Story
For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Behind Biographical Curtain Geographical Landmark Longer Personal
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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Absence Painting Presence Real Something Thing
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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Doe Drawing Image Imitation Life Photograph Photography Rendering Subject Trace Unlike Viewer Visual
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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Capitalism Culture Dream Publicity Same Time
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Born Clothes Heart Lullabies Swaddled Year
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Buy Buyer Envy Herself Imagine Meant Product Spectator
The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Action Choice Determine Ethics Priorities Suggests
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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Always Centre Dismantle Emigrate Fragment Lost Move World
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Contribute Memories Photograph Stranger Unknowable

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