Francoise Sagan Quotes

• Art must take reality by surprise.

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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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• It would be bad form for me to describe people I don’t know and don’t understand.

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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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• I’ve read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

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• I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

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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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• For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

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• All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don’t interest me.

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• I always believe things are going to work out.

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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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• Marriage? It’s like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

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• Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus

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• I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

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

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• 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.

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

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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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  Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

   

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• 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.

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Francoise Sagan (24)

Birth:	21st June, 1935
Death:	24th September, 2004
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Playwriter

About

Francoise Sagan was born in Cajarc, France. She was a French novelist and playwright. Her best-known novel was her first–Bonjour Tristesse–which was written when she was a teenager. She wrote several novels include: A Certain Smile, Aimez-vous Brahms?, La Chamade, Lost Profile, Those without shadows, The Unmade Bed, Sunlight on Cold Water, The Painted Lady, Engagements of the Heart, The Leash, and A Fleeting Sorrow. She wrote several plays include: Château in Sweden, Les violons parfois, La robe mauve de Valentine, Bonheur, impair et passe, L'écharde, Le cheval évanoui, Un piano dans l'herbe, Il fait beau jour et nuit, and L'excès contraire.

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