Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker. She is best known for writing the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, which earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards...
memories long lust
...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
giving-up love-you forever
Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.
night men alcohol
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
love men he-man
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
way losing happened
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
madness knows
Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.
heterosexuality-is perfect desire
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
drinking thinking killing
Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
paris crowds essentials
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.
relationship men fascination
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.
men impossible affair
In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.
views injustice social
I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.
book writing ideas
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.
children home men
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 the he becomes one of the children.