Francoise Sagan Quotes

» A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

» Art must take reality by surprise.

» One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

» The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

» 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.

» To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

» 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.

» Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

» 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.

» Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

» 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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