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Marguerite Duras
said
Writing is not speaking. It's silencing yourself. It's screaming without noise.
— from Ecrire (1993)
Marguerite Duras
French writer and film director (1914-1996)
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She wrote the script for Hiroshima mon amour and turned grief into a language that cinema had never spoken before — spare, haunted, built from silences as much as words.
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Born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, she became Marguerite Duras and spent decades working across forms most writers keep separate: novels, plays, essays, experimental films. The script for Hiroshima mon amour in 1959 brought her an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and marked her as someone who understood how memory breaks and reassembles on screen. She kept pushing into stranger territory as a filmmaker in her own right, making work that refused easy comfort. She died on 3 March 1996, leaving behind a body of writing that still reads like a dare.
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Marguerite Duras
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
— International Herald Tribune (28 March 1990).
Marguerite Duras
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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.
— The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
Marguerite Duras
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
— The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
Marguerite Duras
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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.
— Walesa's Wife, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
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