"Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."

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Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.49, Grove Press

Marguerite Duras

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“I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.”
“It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.”
“I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.”
“The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.”
“Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.”
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”

Source : "Oeuvres". Volume 2, p. 253, 1840.
“How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?”

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