Jean Giraudoux
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"Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux" was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal.

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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.