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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

Francoise Sagan

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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
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Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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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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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
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He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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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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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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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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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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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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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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