Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERIt dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
More John Berger Quotes
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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 zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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