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Marguerite Duras

WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
—Marguerite Duras, Practicalities, 1987

Posted on August 8, 2002 at 6:16 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

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

Posted on May 21, 2002 at 10:18 AM

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