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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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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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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I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.
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After the 'cry of soul,' the individual remembers everything that they came here to earth to do but didn't do it. So they are given another chance and they come back again.
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People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.
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I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.
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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
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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.
