7 Quotes & Sayings By Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Paris-based American writer who wrote for Harper's, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review. She covered the United States during the 1960s and '70s and is known for her work on the Beat Generation, which led to a collection of posthumously published essays, Letters from Paris: Correspondence, 1950–1963. Her letters to her mother were published posthumously in 1991 as Letters from France: Selected Letters, 1943–1963.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully. Janet Flanner
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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. Janet Flanner
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History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made. Janet Flanner
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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
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales. Janet Flanner
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. Janet Flanner