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 Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and… — Janet Flanner Copy Share
She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed… — Janet Flanner Copy Share
“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.” — Janet Flanner Copy Share
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner Copy Share
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is… — Janet Flanner Copy Share
[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 Copy Share
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. — Janet Flanner Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars.… — Janet Flanner Copy Share
When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out. — Janet Flanner Copy Share
... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something. — Janet Flanner Copy Share
The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like… — Janet Flanner Copy Share
