Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner
Janet Flannerwas an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt". She also published a single novel, The Cubical City, set in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth13 March 1892
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
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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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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
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Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.
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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 keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
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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.