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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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John Berger
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: January 2
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Hackney
John Peter Berger
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase it is quite literally true.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .
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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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
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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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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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