27 Quotes by Janet Flanner

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.

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