Marguerite Duras quotes Born: 04/04/1914 Died: 03/03/1996 Country: france

• It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. (Marguerite Duras) [men]
• I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. (Marguerite Duras) [literature]
• To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together. (Marguerite Duras) [love/child/love/love]
• The best way to fill time is to waste it. (Marguerite Duras) [time/waste]
• She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death. (Marguerite Duras) [human/being/infidelity/infidelity]
• No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. (Marguerite Duras) [human/being/music/power]
• Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. (Marguerite Duras) [words/night/darkness/day]
• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. (Marguerite Duras)
• Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. (Marguerite Duras)
• I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. (Marguerite Duras)
• In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. (Marguerite Duras)
• It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. (Marguerite Duras)
• It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. (Marguerite Duras)
• Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. (Marguerite Duras)
• Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. (Marguerite Duras)
• The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. (Marguerite Duras)
• When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. (Marguerite Duras)
• You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable. (Marguerite Duras)

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