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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Janet Flanner / Writer
Inspirational
Genius
Talent
Immediate
Takes
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
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Peace
Died
Storm
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
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Keep Going
Nagging
Sentences
Keep Going Keep Going
Flatter
Gnaw
Nag
Pat
Sentence
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I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.
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Food
Cooking
Sea
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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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Ink
Two
Two Weeks
Week
Soak
Sponge
Squeeze
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When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.
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Hair
Want
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Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.
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Dying
Genius
Littles
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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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Crowds
Dinner
Dinner Table
Closer
Table
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... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
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People
Want
Want Something
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
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Acceptance
Lambs
Mother
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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
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Art
Beautiful
Museums
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[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.
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Running
Men
Mountain
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The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.
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Defeat
Facts
Wreckage
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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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War
Baby
Fighting
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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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Wonder
No Wonder
Operate
Rule
Suffer
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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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Love
Men
War
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She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.
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Artist
Hands
Years
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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 more splendid than man.
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Beautiful
Loss
Moon
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Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.
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Art
Genius
Maternity
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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 / Writer
War
Causes
Looks
Nuremberg
Ruins
Views
Courthouse
Prisoners
Result
Startling
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[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 unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.
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Men
Money
War
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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.
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Alive
Firsts
Years
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The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .
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Moving
Passion
Steel
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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 bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.
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Quality
Class
Mind
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