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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.
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
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Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.
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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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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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No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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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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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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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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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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I have loved to the point of madness That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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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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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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