Marguerite Duras Quotes

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Marguerite Duras

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996

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When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

Jimmy Cliff

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When there is a mission before you, you see it from its beginning to its conclusion.

Jesse White

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The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

John Piper

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Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Sonny Bono

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I'm going to do what I want to do. If he wants to go to the ground, that's fine. I'm a wrestler.

Stipe Miocic

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What I want is to be number one.

Steve Prefontaine

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To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

Trevor Phillips

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I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

Tom Selleck

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I'm inspired by all those women in the '60s - they look so put-together and cool at the same time, and they all were moms - moms and career women. I do wear heels, though. Pretty much always. I need to feel good about myself, so even if it's casual, I'll slip them on.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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To truly launch a great product, you need partners. Channel and marketing partners share in your success and share in the costs of reaching your target audience.

Jay Samit

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I'm an all-American girl.

Jordan Pruitt

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Making movies is all about instinct.

Dino De Laurentiis

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