Quotes by Duras, Marguerite

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Jou >>

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man off >>

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help >>

Quotations about Alcohol and Alcoholism

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much >>

Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker. >>

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. >>

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.

Duras, Marguerite