Janet Flanner Quotes

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• The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
• 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…
• 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…
• In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
• I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
• 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…
• The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.
• When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.
• 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…
• Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
• 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…
• I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
• She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
• She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

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