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No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
Marguerite Duras
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Marguerite Duras
Age: 81 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 4
Died: 1996
Died: March 3
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Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
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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.
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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 you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.
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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.
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It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
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People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.
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Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
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It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
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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.
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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.
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There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
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Very early in my life it was too late.
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Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
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I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
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A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet no one? am I quite sure?
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