The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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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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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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