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Letter "J" » Janet Flanner Quotes
«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.»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
courthouse, Nuremberg, prisoners, prisoner of war, ruins, startling
«I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.»
«Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
«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.»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
«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 . . .»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
«The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
«I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.»
«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 . . .»
«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.»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
«She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.»
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