The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
JOHN BERGERThe 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
More John Berger Quotes
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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