Quote by John Berger
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its por

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. – John Berger

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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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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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Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. – Nora Ephron

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Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. – Sir Winston Churchill

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The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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