JFJanet Flanner

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Janet Flanner

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

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

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

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

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04Undated

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.

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

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

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