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.

Quote by Marguerite Duras

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The best way to fill time is to waste it

The best way to fill time is to waste it

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only...

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only...

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

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

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be...

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives...

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives...

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

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

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

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

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the...

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these...

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else,...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else,...

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have...

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have...

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to...

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to...

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully...

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully...

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

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

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace...

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace...