Best Quotes by Janet Flanner (Top 10)
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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
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
Janet Flanner
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Janet Flanner
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
Janet Flanner
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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
Janet Flanner
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
Janet Flanner
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Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.
Janet Flanner
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Janet Flanner
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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.
Janet Flanner
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The German passion for bureaucracy — for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist — is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .
Janet Flanner
More Janet Flanner Quotes
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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.
Janet Flanner