Quote by John Berger
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the m

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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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When I was born I was so surprised I didnt talk for a year and a half. – Gracie Allen

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Chinese Proverb

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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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A wise man hears one word and understands two. – Yiddish Proverb

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He who does not know how to believe, should not know. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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I dont learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is. – Warren Zevon

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