All publicity works upon anxiety.
JOHN BERGERWhat distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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