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Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
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Film Director
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9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
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I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
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Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
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When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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I have loved to the point of madness That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
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There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
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Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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