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Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

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For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

Source: Practicalities, House and Home, 1987.
-- Marguerite Duras, (Apr 4 1914-1996), French novelist, playwright; She is internationally known for her screenplays of Hiroshima mon amour, 1959 and India Song, 1975 and her novel novel L'Amant, 1984.


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