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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.

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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