"When I hear a writer say that they……" — Janet Flanner
"When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out."
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14 Quotes by Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner has 14 quotes on this site.
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it…
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Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to…
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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
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I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size…
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The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking…
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She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the…
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
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When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you…
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
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More Call Quotes
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
— Pietro Aretino
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
— Richard Bach
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
— Jane Austen
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
— Lauren Bacall
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