Francoise Sagan
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan– real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse– which was written when she was a teenager...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth21 June 1935
CountryFrance
jealousy dying affair
A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
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I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.
art reality surprise
Art must take reality by surprise.
funny money humor
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
love-is cost
Love is worth whatever it costs.
believe work-out going-to-work
I always believe things are going to work out.
love beautiful age
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.
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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.
curiosity
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.