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Marguerite Duras Quotes

Marguerite Duras quotes

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

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Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed..."
...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened. Marguerite Duras
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
Marguerite Duras quote: "It's only women who are not really quite women at all,..."
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. Marguerite Duras
A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure? Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for..."
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. Marguerite Duras
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
Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the..."
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "We, her children, are heroic, dersperate."
We, her children, are heroic, dersperate. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without..."
We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting. Marguerite Duras
What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have..."
It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a..."
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. Marguerite Duras
When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you. Marguerite Duras

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