What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more. Marguerite Duras More Quotes by Marguerite Duras More Quotes From Marguerite Duras 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 househomehappiness There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature. Marguerite Duras writingmenthinking 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. Marguerite Duras realmenbook I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me. Marguerite Duras drinkspacefaces I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen. Marguerite Duras happenstodayway 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 motherbelievechildren I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin. Marguerite Duras gunfirefear I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love. Marguerite Duras bodywantdesire I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight Marguerite Duras delightsilencethinking It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. Marguerite Duras neglectwomenideas In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too. Marguerite Duras ignoranceworldyears She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love. Marguerite Duras kissingmemoriespeople The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe. Marguerite Duras griefbrotherdeath A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely. Marguerite Duras womenrainwar 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. Marguerite Duras eventsjudginglooks People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society. Marguerite Duras parisgivingpeople We, her children, are heroic, dersperate. Marguerite Duras heroicchildren Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him. Marguerite Duras faithfulofferingmen 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. Marguerite Duras infidelitywifeopposites a writer is a foreign country Marguerite Duras foreign-countriescountry
