Marcel Pagnol Quotes

Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. February 1895 – 18. April 1974
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Famous Marcel Pagnol Quotes

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

Marcel Pagnol

Variant: People see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is and the future less resolved than it’ll be.

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