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The German passion...

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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 . . .

Source: Paris Germany, In The New Yorker, 7 Dec 1940.
-- Janet Flanner, (Mar 13 1892-1978), US journalist; She wrote Letter From Paris for the New Yorker for Almost 50 Years. One of Few Women to Be Awarded French Legion of Honor.


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