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...
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.
years waiting might
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
waiting battle arms
We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.
children doors waiting
I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.
believes child cute-love dead himself honest humble living love loves man punk sweet-love whether
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.
belongs desire faithful himself imagined offering stranger whatever whom woman
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.
believe children education happiness interest interested knows mother safer teach wants
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.
paris people giving
People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.
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.
differences reaching marvelous
When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.
country foreign-countries
a writer is a foreign country
silence growing reason
A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?
wrinkles skins substance
It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.
heart voice yards
Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.