Marguerite Duras quote: "When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ev...
MARGUERITE DURAS

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prov...
MARGUERITE DURAS

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me,...
MARGUERITE DURAS

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Oth...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything e...
MARGUERITE DURAS

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power ...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself ...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack...
MARGUERITE DURAS

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a wo...
MARGUERITE DURAS

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the...
MARGUERITE DURAS

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She kn...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
MARGUERITE DURAS

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infi...
MARGUERITE DURAS

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether ...
MARGUERITE DURAS

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her neares...
MARGUERITE DURAS

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restr...
MARGUERITE DURAS

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely u...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely...
MARGUERITE DURAS

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, th...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Sometimes your gaze alone scares me. Sometimes I've never seen you before. I no longer know what you...
MARGUERITE DURAS

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
MARGUERITE DURAS

The best way to fill time is to waste it.
MARGUERITE DURAS

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
MARGUERITE DURAS

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

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prov...
MARGUERITE DURAS

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

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come ...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's th...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces...
MARGUERITE DURAS

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the st...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
MARGUERITE DURAS

Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
MARGUERITE DURAS

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory ...
MARGUERITE DURAS

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest...
MARGUERITE DURAS

The best way to fill time is to waste it
MARGUERITE DURAS

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely u...
MARGUERITE DURAS

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infid...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolute...
MARGUERITE DURAS

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me,...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Muy pronto en mi vida fue demasiado tarde.
MARGUERITE DURAS

I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.
MARGUERITE DURAS

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he ...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Започнах да пиша в обкръжение, което твърде силно ме тл...
MARGUERITE DURAS

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all t...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni línea. Hay vastos pasajes donde se insinúa que alguien hubo. No es...
MARGUERITE DURAS

Los besos en el cuerpo hacen llorar. Diríase que consuelan.
MARGUERITE DURAS

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive cream...
MARGUERITE DURAS

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in ...
MARGUERITE DURAS

And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, ...
MARGUERITE DURAS

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exi...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they ...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they t...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

Tears fell from my eyes--yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind ...
MARGUERITE BEECHER

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the acce...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that ...
MARGUERITE GARDINER

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
MARGUERITE GARDINER

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn&#...
MARGUERITE MOREAU

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers
MARGUERITE GARDINER

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
MARGUERITE GARDINER

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the acce...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

You'll never get that on a regular tour. We go to the small places the mass hordes don't go, and we ...
MARGUERITE DALIANES

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
MARGUERITE GARDINER

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the ...
MARGUERITE GARDINER

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE GARDINER

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
MARGUERITE GARDINER

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE GARDINER

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
MARGUERITE YOUNG

The asexual angel, neither male nor female... unable to live without her mask of illusions... showed...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Every invalid is a prisoner
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
MARGUERITE GARDINER

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
MARGUERITE MOREAU

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosop...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Every invalid is a prisoner.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted t...
MARGUERITE GARDINER

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relatio...
MARGUERITE MOREAU

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and severa...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.
MARGUERITE MOREAU

Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wit...
MARGUERITE PORETE

[*] Memoirs of Hadrian ... Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile th...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the othe...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important...
MARGUERITE MOREAU

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
MARGUERITE GARDINER

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernic...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up te...
MARGUERITE GARDINER

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Reason, you'll always be half-blind.
MARGUERITE PORETE

Don't blindly follow any leader.
MARGUERITE YOUNG

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the mos...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Analyzing anything negative that affects their score and aggressively disputing anything erroneous, ...
MARGUERITE FISCHER

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is tha...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Like Kay Boyle, whose work I'm wild about, I could have married, written a book with every baby, a b...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
MARGUERITE YOUNG

I bear a heavy gift.
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Life has no beginning, middle or end.
MARGUERITE YOUNG

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Apenas llegado a Sharax, el fatigado emperador había ido a sentarse a la orilla del mar, frente a l...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

I had read the histories of mountain climbers, of suffragette captains, of travelers to the Middle E...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest'unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioc...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my firs...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

The holidays are such a hectic time. Staying home on New Year's Eve is a way to begin the New Year m...
MARGUERITE ADELMAN

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place rem...
MARGUERITE GARDINER

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.
MARGUERITE MOREAU

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to negl...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
MARGUERITE YOUNG

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what drea...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

UND suggests dramatic changes quickly.
MARGUERITE COTTO

It did not seem realistic to do this amount of research into the program and not tell people that wa...
MARGUERITE COTTO

We tend to think of program closure as a last resort.
MARGUERITE COTTO

We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.
MARGUERITE COTTO

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

It was a very elegant line, the Royal Viking.
MARGUERITE DALIANES

I haven't counted how many times I've gone. Easily 40 or so times.
MARGUERITE DALIANES

This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD

Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD

We had a guy in our company -- this is what he does for a living -- fall for one. The guy was so con...
MARGUERITE FISCHER

I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole l...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does...
MARGUERITE YOUNG

God bless pawnbrokers! They are quiet men
MARGUERITE WILKINSON

Justice moves very slowly, but it is nice to know that it does move.
MARGUERITE THOMAS

It's just a chance for people to get together and mingle and have a good time. And to tell the story...
MARGUERITE THOMAS

No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitud...
MARGUERITE THOMAS

Probably. But, I'm saying Sarah and her mother had problems to a much greater degree.
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY

She was obsessed with getting her nails done while we were selecting photos for memory boards at ser...
MARGUERITE SOWERSBY

One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, wit...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Bless...
LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making f...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

~ Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally ...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes t...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MARGUERITE GARDINER BLESSINGTON

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE

Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always anot...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI

It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit.
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI

A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine ar...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI

Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI

We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what w...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI

I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON

It is difficult to overcome one's passions, and impossible to satisfy them
MARGUERITE DE LA SABLIERE

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

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Marguerite Duras

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

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