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… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
[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 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 Image
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
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