Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Pagnolwas a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth25 February 1895
CountryFrance
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One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.
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The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be