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Playwright Quotes
Category:
French Playwright Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 21, 1935
Date of Death:
September 24, 2004
Nationality:
French
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Francoise Sagan

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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Francoise Sagan

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
Francoise Sagan

Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Francoise Sagan

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
Francoise Sagan

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Francoise Sagan

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
Francoise Sagan

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Francoise Sagan

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan

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.
Francoise Sagan


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