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
laughter laughing
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
relationship broken-heart cells
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
commitment views ideas
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.
discovery irritated vulnerable
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.
nice real saws
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
uplifting military pity
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
morning light golden
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
night sea goes-on
At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
proust
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
expression people faces
The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.
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.
despair torn craving
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.
two bed wells
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
firefly people bangs
I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.