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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.

John Berger

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.
JOHN BERGER

Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Chosen Emigration Experience Forced Metropolis National Time Village
All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Anxiety Publicity Upon Work
Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Alone Carry Century Chair Clothes Heart Later Learn Like Live Poem Poet Read Want
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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Actor Art Before Both Bring Cinema Compare Drama Dramatix Nature Public Right Season
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Aqtch Look Men Sight Vision Women
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Believe City Country Love Man Men Older Twenties Woman
This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Determine Effection Men Most Only Relation Relationship Themselves Wome
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Add All Cutting Daily Future Mean Media Modernism Past Presently
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Establish Explain Fact Facts Place Seeing Surround Undo Word World
You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody
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
These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
JOHN BERGER

Ambiguity Contradiction Image Increase Natural Photo Photograph
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 true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Invisible Photograph Play Time True
[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
JOHN BERGER

Art Future Innocent Judge never Often Past Revenge Shown Suffer

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