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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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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Women
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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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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
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Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
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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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Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
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Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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