Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. - Janet Flanner
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
- Janet Flanner
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been… - Janet Flanner
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been…
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhy… - Janet Flanner
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhy…
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. - Janet Flanner
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. - Janet Flanner
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.
I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourge… - Janet Flanner
I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourge…
... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something. - Janet Flanner
... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. - Janet Flanner
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting. - Janet Flanner
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.
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