"I act as a sponge. I soak it……" — Janet Flanner

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

— Janet Flanner

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14 Quotes by Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to…
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size…
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking…
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…
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…
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.

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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