Quotes by Duras, Marguerite

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness >>

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

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his po >>

Quotations about Acting and Actors

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a >>

The actor searches vainly for the sound of a vanished tradition, and c >>

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on th >>

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

Duras, Marguerite