Marguerite Duras: Wording

Marguerite Duras was French writer and film director. Explore interesting quotes on wording.

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“I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.”

Marguerite Duras book Emily L.

Source: Emily L.

“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”

Marguerite Duras book Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.”

Marguerite Duras

Source: Summer Rain

“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”

Marguerite Duras

Source: Summer Rain

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

Marguerite Duras

Walesa's Wife, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).