One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
—Francoise Sagan
Topics: Laughter
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
Topics: Authors & Writing, Writers, Writing
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
—Francoise Sagan
Topics: Jealousy, Defects
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness,
That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
—Francoise Sagan
Topics: Romance
There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.
—Francoise Sagan
Topics: Laughter
Art must take reality by surprise.
—Francoise Sagan
Topics: Reality
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
Topics: Books, Literature
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
—Francoise Sagan
Topics: Girls, Love
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
Topics: Deception, Deception/Lying
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