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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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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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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – 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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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. – Crand Briton

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Criticism

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid. – W. H. Auden

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The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. – Michael Jordan

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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. – Channing Pollock

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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. – Victor Hugo

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