Phrase by 'Marguerite Duras'

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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  Day , Man , Night , Darkness


You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  Love , You , Men , To Love


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.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  Man , God , Alcohol , Destiny


I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  People , Believe , Mother , Madness


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.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  Music , Man , Power , Woman


When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  Animal , Nature , Woman , Child


I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  See , Literature , Journalism , I See


It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  Men , Most , Loved , Deceived


The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist


It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

Author: Marguerite Duras - French Novelist
  Who , Only , Women , Neglect


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