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Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

~Marguerite Duras

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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

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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.

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Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: April 4th, 1914

Died: March 3rd, 1996

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