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16 quotes by Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Born (1914-04-04)4 April 1914 Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam) Died 3 March 1996(1996-03-03) (aged 81) Paris, France Occupation Writer Nationality French Ethnicity French Period 20th century Genre Novel, drama Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (French: [maʁ.ɡə.ʁit dy.ʁas]; 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French writer and film director.
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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

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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.

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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.... →

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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... →

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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

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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.

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In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

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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... →

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Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

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Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

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