Marguerite Duras Quotes

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.

Marguerite Duras

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Robert Plant

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With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.

Robert Gottlieb

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I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.

Matthew Davis

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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

Matthew McConaughey

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The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

Michael Feinstein

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Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good.

Sri Chinmoy

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The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

Steven Seagal

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If I had a dollar for every guy that came up to me to say, 'I'm not a scrub,' oh my God, I'd have a billion dollars.

Rozonda Thomas

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I don't think in terms of being a superstar.

Mohamed Salah

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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Jean Anouilh

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Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

Douglas Brinkley

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Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.

Donatella Versace

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