If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
JOHN BERGER
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
More John Berger Quotes
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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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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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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