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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.
— Marguerite Duras Practicalities
Tags: men, love

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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.
— Marguerite Duras
Tags: destiny, alcohol, man, god
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.
— Marguerite Duras
Tags: animal, matter, woman, nature
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
— Marguerite Duras
Tags: without, moral, journalism, impossible
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
— Marguerite Duras
Tags: see, only, literature, journalism
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
— Marguerite Duras
Tags: desire, dangerous, aim, you
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