Francoise Sagan quotes

" 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. " # Deception # Writers and Writing # Kindness

" Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. " # Jazz # Music # Poetry and Poets

" To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. " # Jealousy # Laughter # Action

" 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. " # Literature # Arts and Artists # Life and Living

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

" 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. " # Writers and Writing # Character # Jazz