Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
JOHN BERGER
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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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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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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