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Marguerite Duras Quotes
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Before they’re plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can’t explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can’t understand it at all any longer (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
The thing that’s between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you’re a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we’re alike (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
What stops you killing yourself when you’re intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you’re dead you won’t be able to drink any more (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
Drinking isn’t necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can’t drink without thinking you’re killing yourself (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
I acquired that drinker’s face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
In heterosexual love there’s no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it’s the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
I suddenly remember something I’ve been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
It has been my face. It’s got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It’s scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn’t collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It’s kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so. A writer is a foreign country (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
It’s only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I’m still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
... as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn’t happened (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don’t love you, have you noticed that? (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken (Marguerite Duras Quotes)
That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one’s passion (Marguerite Duras Quotes)