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...
real book men
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.
eye men hands
Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.
writing men thinking
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
men differences waiting
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.
men offering faithful
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.
men mind dying
He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.
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.
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.
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.
love men feelings
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
country writing men
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
destiny men funny-sarcastic
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.