The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
JOHN BERGERCompassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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What 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.
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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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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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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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 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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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