Quote

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

Francoise Sagan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
Biographer
Film Director
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
Mental
Type
Call
Age
Mind
Types
Ages

More quotes by Francoise Sagan

Image
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.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
Francoise Sagan
Image
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.
Francoise Sagan
Image
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.
Francoise Sagan
Image
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
Francoise Sagan
Image
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
Francoise Sagan
Image
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.
Francoise Sagan
Image
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
Image
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.
Francoise Sagan
Image
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.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
Francoise Sagan
Image
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
Francoise Sagan
Image
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
Francoise Sagan
Image
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.
Francoise Sagan
Image
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Francoise Sagan
Image
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
Francoise Sagan
Image
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Francoise Sagan