French - Playwright | June 21, 1935 - September 24, 2004
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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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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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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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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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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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
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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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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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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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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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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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