Top 16 Quotes by Marguerite Duras

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.