Bureaucracy Quote by Janet Flanner

“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

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

— Janet Flanner

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

“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.”

— Janet Flanner

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

— Janet Flanner

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

[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

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

— Janet Flanner

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

— Janet Flanner

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

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

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

— Janet Flanner