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No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

~Marguerite Duras

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

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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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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.

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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: April 4th, 1914

Died: March 3rd, 1996

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