M Duras Quotes

#1. I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I've always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I've always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it's so like me.

Marguerite Duras

#2. Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.

Marguerite Duras

#3. Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

#4. To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

Terry Tempest Williams

#5. He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why.

Marguerite Duras

#6. The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

Edmund White

#7. I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

Juliette Binoche

#8. Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.

Claire Denis