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Janet Flanner quotes

7 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Janet Flanner wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around.

Illustrated portrait of Janet Flanner
Pen-and-ink illustration of a journalist's typewriter, newspapers, spectacles, and the Eiffel Tower
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
— Janet Flanner, on writing the Letter from Paris
I looked up the French meanings and found three, none of which mattered. Ross never told me what it meant. Frankly, I think he thought it was a nice French way of spelling Janet.
— Janet Flanner, on Harold Ross's choice of the pen name Genêt
I was requested to leave. Lawless.
— Janet Flanner, on the end of her two years at the University of Chicago
In the early twenties, when I was new there, Paris was still yesterday.
— Janet Flanner
Memories are the specific invisible remains in our lives of what belongs in the past tense.
— Janet Flanner, preface to Paris Was Yesterday, 1925–1939 (1972)
Rarely does a day go by that I don't think of you.
— Janet Flanner, letter to Solita Solano, 1974
I wish nothing had happened that has happened in our lives.
— Janet Flanner, letter to Solita Solano, on returning to Paris after the war

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