Франсуаза Саган: Цитаты на английском языке

Франсуаза Саган было французская писательница, драматург. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“I don’t search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity.”

Paris Review interview (1956)
Контексте: 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.

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

Paris Review interview (1956)
Контексте: For me 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.

“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Françoise Sagan книга Dans un mois, dans un an

Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)

“She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants…”

Françoise Sagan книга Dans un mois, dans un an

Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)

“We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.”

Françoise Sagan книга Смутная улыбка

Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)

“Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.”

Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)

“Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.”

Françoise Sagan книга Dans un mois, dans un an

Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)

“When a man has dreamed of winning something by a colossal stroke of luck, he is prone to neglect petty but more practical ways of attaining it.”

Françoise Sagan книга Dans un mois, dans un an

Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)

“No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.”

Françoise Sagan книга Dans un mois, dans un an

Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)

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

Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)

“It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.”

Françoise Sagan книга Смутная улыбка

Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)