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

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She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love. Marguerite Duras
Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe... 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: "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
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
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
I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them. Marguerite Duras

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