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French playwright born on June 21, 1935, and died on September 24, 2004. Francoise Sagan is known for her unique literary style and profound emotional expression, and is considered an important figure in French literature of the 20th century.

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“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.”

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Author:Francoise Sagan

“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.”

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“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.”

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Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE

Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE

About the Author

Born: June 21, 1935
Died: September 24, 2004
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 83

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