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Marguerite Duras
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Marguerite Duras
Age: 81 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 4
Died: 1996
Died: March 3
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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
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I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
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One must talk. That's how it is. One must.
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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
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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.
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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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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 don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.
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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.
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Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.
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Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
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We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.
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Very early in my life it was too late.
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All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
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I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.
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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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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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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 unbearable.
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