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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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Men are not amusing during the shooting season but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
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Success is a great healer.
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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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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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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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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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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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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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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
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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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I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
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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.
Gertrude Atherton
We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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