Marguerite Duras

(350 votes)   The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.

Marguerite Duras
1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(275 votes)   For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

Marguerite Duras
1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(223 votes)   Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Marguerite Duras
1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(177 votes)   To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

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1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(146 votes)   Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

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(144 votes)   Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Marguerite Duras
1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(123 votes)   A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

Marguerite Duras
1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

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(123 votes)   She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

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(120 votes)   The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.

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(80 votes)   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.

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(68 votes)   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.

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(66 votes)   Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

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(65 votes)   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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(60 votes)   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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(59 votes)   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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