Quote by John Berger
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demo

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

Other quotes by John Berger

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

Category:
Travel
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

Category:
Evil
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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Grief, Grieving
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City Life, Cities
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. – Fred A. Allen

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. – Johnny Carson

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. – Alan Brien

Ive been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If youve seen one city slum youve seen them all. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Love means not ever having to say youre sorry. – Erich Segal

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I believe in singularity in relationships because youve got to have trust on both sides. – Thomas Haden Church

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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. Its courage that counts. – John Wooden

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