Janet Flanner Quotes

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

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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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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 what other men have invented...

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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 be killed fighting.

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

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She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

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Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.

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People who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

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General de Gaulle is very pituitary these days, to judge by his increased appearance at his recent, and important, press conference.... Time, weight, and, evidently, the General's glands are giving his visage a heavy, royal outline; he looks more like a man of dynasty than of destiny.

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Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

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This period has brought about the greatest, most terrible, and most destructive migration of modern times, a movement of men, women, and children trekking across Europe in flight from other men, women, and children... Whether they go north, south, east, or west, they head toward poverty.

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The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

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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 view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

Janet Flanner