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Janet Flanner

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


— Janet Flanner


#peace #storms #suzanne-lenglen #death

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.


— Janet Flanner


#painting #suzanne-lenglen #tennis #love

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


— Janet Flanner


#bread #cost-of-living #art

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


— Janet Flanner


#gnaw #going #i #keep #keep going

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


#love #man #men #nor #operate

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


#courthouse #look #looking #nuremberg #prisoners

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


— Janet Flanner


#built #closer #come #crowds #dinner

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.


— Janet Flanner


#immediate #takes #talent #time

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


— Janet Flanner


#every #i #ink #out #soak






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Did you know about Janet Flanner?

Flanner was a prominent member of the American expatriate community which included Ernest Hemingway F. It was this connection that Harold Ross offered her the position of French Correspondent to the New Yorker. While in New York Janet Flanner moved in the circle of the Algonquin Round Table but was not a member.

Janet Flanner (March 13 1892 – November 7 1978) was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until Janet Flanner retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt".

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