John Berger Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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We were descended from royalty.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.
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I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
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When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.
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It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
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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.
