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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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
Novelist
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Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
Whisky
Ferrari
Housework
Gambling
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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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For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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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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Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
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I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
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I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.
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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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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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I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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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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For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
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Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.
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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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