Duras

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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.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    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.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)