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 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
