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What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
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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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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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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Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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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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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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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front a writer puts on the face of reality.
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