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
believe thinking drunk
It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
thinking common-sense world
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
husband good-love thinking
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.
eye kissing thinking
I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
time thinking trying
I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
thinking dostoyevsky limitation
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.
feels less life oneself rhythmic sort tells three time
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.
few
Nous sommes peu à penser trop, trop à penser peu. (There are a few who think too much, and many who think too little)
girl suffering littles
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
eye reflection people
No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.
passion salt wells
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.
credit rich finance
In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
falling-in-love fall conventional
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
ugly unhappiness teach
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.