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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.

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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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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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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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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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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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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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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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 like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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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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If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.
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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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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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