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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.
Source: Interview in Writers at Work (First Series, ed. by Malcolm Cowley, 1958).
-- Francoise Sagan, (Jun 21 1935-2004), French novelist; She is best known for her novel A Certain Smile, 1956.