Françoise Sagan - People Quotes

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I don't search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my novels the people I know. 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.

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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.

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It's not doubt that drives people crazy, it's certainty that does.

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Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

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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.

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No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

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No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.

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