When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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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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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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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