Quote by Marguerite Duras
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. – Marguerite Duras

Other quotes by 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

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Happiness
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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

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God
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Men like women who write. Even though they dont say so. A writer is a foreign country. – Marguerite Duras

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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him. – Ernest Hemingway

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Journalism is the entertainment business. – Frank Herbert

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Our job is like a bakers work — his rolls are tasty as long as theyre fresh; after two days theyre stale; after a week, theyre covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. – Jean De La Fontaine

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