American - Journalist | March 13, 1892 - November 7, 1978
When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.
Janet Flanner
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She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
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