Marguerite Duras Quotes About Alcohol

Quotes about: Alcohol

• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

  Marguerite Duras

  Destiny, Men, Funny Sarcastic

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

• 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

  Night, Men, Alcohol

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

• When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Drinking, Animal

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.

  Marguerite Duras

  Alcohol, Gaps, Psychological

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

• No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

  Marguerite Duras

  Real, Book, Men

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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