Quote by John Berger
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The cent

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

Other quotes by John Berger

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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Criticism
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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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Photography
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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Words
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There are days when I intentionally dont write. For instance, I never write when Im traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. – Thomas Perry

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Travel

The travel and tourism industry, its just a huge part of our economy. – Karen Hughes

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Travel

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun. – Jacqueline Winspear

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Travel

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. Youre going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world. – Rob Corddry

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Travel

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My experiences have taught me a lot and Im happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. – Ally Sheedy

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Experience

There are biological fundamentals in a can of beer, a pool room and a whore house. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Beer

Physician — One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. – Ambrose Bierce

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Doctors

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift

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Exaggeration