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Janet Flanner quotes: I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

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

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

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

Janet Flanner quotes: 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.

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 quotes: She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

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

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

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

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

Janet Flanner quotes: [Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Janet Flanner quotes: I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

Janet Flanner quotes: In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

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

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

Janet Flanner quotes: The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

Janet Flanner quotes: 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.

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 quotes: She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

Janet Flanner quotes: I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

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

Janet Flanner quotes: Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.