All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
JOHN BERGERThe power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
More John Berger Quotes
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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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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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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