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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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
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I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
