Janet Flanner
Janet Tyler Flanner was 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". and published a single novel, "The Cubical City", set in New York City.
“She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.”
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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.”
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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
“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.”
Janet Flanner
“I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.”
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