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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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