Best Marguerite Duras Quotes
- Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. Absolutely
- 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… Alcohol
- I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. Journalism
- It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. All
- 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… Creates
- Very early in my life it was too late. Early
- 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… Bloodless
- He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds. Dying
- ...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened. Cursed
- When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life. Breath
- She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. Early
- 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.… Any
- Life is only lived full-time by women with children. Children
- 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… All
- The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. Body
- That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion. Completely
- We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting. Arms
- 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… Appeal
- 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. Forgotten
- 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… Anyone
- You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until… Alone
- 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… Ago
- 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… Date
- 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… Abandoned
- 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… Children
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