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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

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
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
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Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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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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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 think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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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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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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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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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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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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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
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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 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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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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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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