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.

Quote by Marguerite Duras

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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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The best way to fill time is to waste it

The best way to fill time is to waste it

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.

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...

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism...

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism...

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...

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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,...

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time,...

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time,...

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers...

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...