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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
Asmodeus
Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
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Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?
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I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
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... France is the genius among nations.
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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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