I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. – Marguerite Duras
Men like women who write. Even though they dont say so. A writer is a foreign country. – Marguerite Duras
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She cant help it – cant help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. – Marguerite Duras
Its afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didnt necessarily prove that you loved him. – Marguerite Duras
Alcohol doesnt console, it doesnt fill up anyones psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesnt 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
The best way to fill time is to waste it. – Marguerite Duras
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. – Marguerite Duras
