23 Quotations by Marguerite Duras
- 1. A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restr ...
- 2. Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
- 3. Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack ...
- 4. Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself ...
- 5. Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything e ...
- 6. For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She kn ...
- 7. Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the ...
- 8. I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, th ...
- 9. I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature ...
- 10. It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
- 11. It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prov ...
- 12. It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect ...
- 13. Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely u ...
- 14. No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power ...
- 15. No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power ...
- 16. She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infi ...
- 17. The best way to fill time is to waste it.
- 18. The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her neares ...
- 19. The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether ...
- 20. The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, ...
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