Janet Flanner Quotes

• I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

  Janet Flanner

  Nagging, Sentences, Keep Going

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

  Janet Flanner

  Inspirational, Genius, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

  Janet Flanner

  Two, Ink, Week

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• In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

  Janet Flanner

  Beautiful, Art, Museums

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• I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

  Janet Flanner

  Food, Sea, Cooking

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• Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

  Janet Flanner

  Beautiful, Loss, Moon

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• I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

  Janet Flanner

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• ... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

  Janet Flanner

  Want Something, People, Want

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• She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

  Janet Flanner

  Artist, Hands, Years

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• [On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.

  Janet Flanner

  Money, War, Men

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• She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

  Janet Flanner

  Peace, Storm, Died

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• The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

  Janet Flanner

  Mother, Acceptance, Lambs

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• By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

  Janet Flanner

  Love, War, Men

  Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)

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• When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

  Janet Flanner

  War, Views, Looks

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• Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

  Janet Flanner

  Dying, Genius, Littles

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• Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.

  Janet Flanner

  Years, Alive, Firsts

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• Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

  Janet Flanner

  Baby, War, Fighting

  Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)

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• The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .

  Janet Flanner

  Moving, Passion, Steel

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• Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

  Janet Flanner

  Art, Genius, Maternity

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• When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.

  Janet Flanner

  Hair, Want

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• The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

  Janet Flanner

  Facts, Wreckage, Defeat

  Janet Flanner (1966). “Paris Journal: 1944-1965”

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• [Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

  Janet Flanner

  Running, Men, Mountain

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