French - Novelist | April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras
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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.
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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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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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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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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
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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.
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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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In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
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