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«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
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
Real Book, replace
«A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
distract, restrict, restricted, so as to, specially
«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
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| About:
Alcohol
| Keywords:
drunkenness, speaks in, The Coming
«I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
Journalists, laborers, manual, manual laborer, The Manual
«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
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
alcoholism, drinks, female child, scandalous, slur, slurred, slurs
«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.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
come together
«The best way to fill time is to waste it»
«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 like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.»
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