Marguerite Duras Quotes
1914–1996 France
Marguerite Donnadieu (April 4 1914 – March 3 1996), better known as Marguerite Duras, was a French writer and film director.
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Also known as: Duras, Marguerite, Marguerite Donnadieu
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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
There is no vacation from love, it doesn't exist. Love, you must live it fully, with its boredom and all, there is no possible vacation from that.
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Writing is not speaking. It's silencing yourself. It's screaming without noise.
Ecrire (1993)
Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.
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.