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Marguerite Duras

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Marguerite Duras Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Marguerite Duras

Birthname

Birthday: April 4, 1914

Death: March 3, 1996

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: French, France

Occupations: Novelist, Playwright, Filmmaker, Poet Lawyer, Feminist

Spouse: Dionys Mascolo, Robert Antelme

Total quotes: 5

“To write is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.”

— Marguerite Duras, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Tagged: Writing, Silence, noiselessly, voice

“In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.”

— Marguerite Duras, The Little Horses of Tarquinia

Tagged: Love, Vacations, Boredom

“One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me.”

— Marguerite Duras, The Lover

Tagged: first lines of books

“I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.”

— Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour

Tagged: said to exes, think about you

“Very early in my life it was too late.”

— Marguerite Duras, The Lover

Tagged: Never Enough Time, NoFuture/NoPast, Quote of the Moment, Born to Die, The Lie of Youth

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