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FRANCOISE SAGAN
The Art of Fiction No. 15
Interviewed by Blair Fuller & Robert B. Silvers
Issue 14, Autumn 1956
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INTERVIEWER
To what extent do you recognize your limits and maintain a check on your ambitions?

SAGAN
Well, that is a pretty disagreeable question, isn’t it? I recognize limitations in the sense that I’ve read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare. That’s the best answer, I think. Aside from that I don’t think of limiting myself.
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