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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
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Solitude is the thing without which one does nothing.
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
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I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.
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If I hadn't begun writing, I would have become an incurable alcoholic.
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War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
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Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
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Fear is my main point of reference. Causing fear is what constitutes evil.
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All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
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The person who writes books must always be enveloped by a separation from others.
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Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
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Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
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As long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
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I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.
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It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.
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Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
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I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
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She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
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Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
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It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
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Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't neccessarily prove that you loved him.
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We're in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we're in the vanguard of waiting.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
Marguerite Duras
Born:
April 4, 1914
Died:
March 3, 1996
(aged 81)
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