A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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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Type:
Playwright
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
Nationality:
French |