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Them Quotes by Marguerite Duras
- A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them…
- For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them…
- 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…
- You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply…
- 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…
- ...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
- 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.…
- 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.
- 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…
- Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster