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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily

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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal – John Berger

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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. – John Berger

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. – Louis Aragon

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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