Jean Anouilh
French playwright (1910–1987)
Jean Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist, screenwriter and translator.
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Quotes
edit- Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empêchera d'être heureux.
- There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
- La Sauvage ["The Restless Heart"] (1938), Act 3.
- Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins drôle et c'est plus long.
- To die is nothing. Begin by living. It’s less funny and lasts longer.
- Roméo et Jeannette (1946), Act 3.
- On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir !
- But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.
- Cecile or The School for Fathers (1954)
- When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.
- Time Remembered (1958)
- Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”
- Jean Anouilh as cited in: Stuart Allan (2010) News Culture. p. 1
