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Only Quotes by Marguerite Duras
- 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…
- I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
- It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
- Life is only lived full-time by women with children.
- 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…
- I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery.…
- Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
- 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.…
- I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the…
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