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Quote by John Berger
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

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Dreams
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John Berger
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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, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger

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City Life, Cities
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A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both. – Author Unknown

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Photography

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking – and looking. – Brooks Atkinson

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Photography

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. – Tony Benn

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Photography

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. – Author Unknown

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Photography

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I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripas job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show. – Ellie Kemper

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We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society. – Bianca Jagger

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