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Marguerite Duras was a renowned French writer born on April 4, 1914, and passed away on March 3, 1996. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound social insight, with notable titles including 'The Lover' and 'The River'.

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Famous Marguerite Duras Quotes

“فبما إنّي كنتُ أكتب .. توجّب الحديث عن الكتب ، وهذا ما لا يتحمّله الرجال ، لا يتحمّلون امرأةً تكتب. إنّه أمرٌ لا يُطاق بالنسبة إلى الرجل ، شاقّ على الجميع”

Men Writing Books الكتابة الرجال الكتب

Book:Writing

Source: Writing

“A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.”

Men War Hard Age Women Sleep Middle Revolution Involved Bed Rain Garden Tasks Clouds Lovely Get Up Inequality Sexism Middle Ages Men Women Happy Man

Author:Marguerite Duras

“There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.”

Thinking Men Should Writing Literature

Author:Marguerite Duras

“In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.”

Men Impossible Solutions Men And Women Affair Doomed Grandeur

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.”

Men Mind Wanted Pay Dying Ought Paid Going Out

Author:Marguerite Duras

“Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.”

Knows Men Hands Eye Lasts Names Waiting Saws Mines Appeals His Eyes

Book:La douleur

Source: La douleur

“The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.”

Ifs Men Trying Children Stills Home Might Used Asks Answers Used To Be Ask Me What If

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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 Relationship Findings Fascination

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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.”

Men Mean Children Home Time House Adventure Longing

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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.”

Men Love Believe Children Two Together Honest Humble Punk Honest Man Two Loves

Author:Marguerite Duras

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

Men Love He Man Deceived

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.”

Men Love Feelings Realizing Prove

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.”

Knows Men Desire He Man Stranger Faithful Offering Frigidity

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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.”

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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.”

Men Love Philosophical Affection Unbearable

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

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

Men Night Speak Darkness Alcohol Fades Alcoholism Drunkenness Barren Frigidity

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

Men Writing Country Foreign Countries

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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.”

Men Giving Humans Book Real Human Beings Creation Painting Illusion Alcohol Alcoholism

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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.”

Men Littles Waiting Differences Journalist Drivers Homosexual Unemployed Taxi Plumber

Author:Marguerite Duras

About the Author

Born: April 4, 1914
Died: March 3, 1996
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 132

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