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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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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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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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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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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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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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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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