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Marguerite Duras Quotes

Marguerite Duras quotes

French Novelist, Writer, Regisseur April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996

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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 serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. Marguerite Duras
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
Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her. 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 a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for..."
He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds. Marguerite Duras
Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A..."
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. Marguerite Duras
The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children. Marguerite Duras
I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight Marguerite Duras
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
Marguerite Duras quote: "Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into..."
Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've..."
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity,..."
All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of..."
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

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