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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
Francoise Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
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9th arrondissement
Paris
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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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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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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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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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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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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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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 had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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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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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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Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
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I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
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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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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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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.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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