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Marguerite Duras

French Novelist

Born: Apr 4, 1914

Died: Mar 3, 1996

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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. Marguerite Duras

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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

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

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

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Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. Marguerite Duras

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