Marguerite Duras quotes - page 2

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)
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. View quote
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He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds. View quote
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a writer is a foreign country. View quote
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All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time. View quote
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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 what they've said today will have a date too. View quote
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. View quote
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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. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think. View quote
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He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why. View quote
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I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love. View quote
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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 I die. (Marguerite Duras)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. View quote
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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 itself but in the search for it. View quote
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... as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened. View quote
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The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children. View quote
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I think about you. But I don't say it anymore. View quote
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In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. View quote
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Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime. Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. View quote
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She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. (Marguerite Duras)
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. View quote
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. View quote
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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 remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. View quote
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. View quote
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