Francoise Sagan
» Deception » “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.”
» Jazz » “Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.”
» Jealousy » “To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
» Literature » “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.”
» Love » “Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.”
» Writers and Writing » “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.”
