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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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
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Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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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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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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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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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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He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.
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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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curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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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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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
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You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
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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.
Francoise Sagan
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.
Francoise Sagan
At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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