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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
Asmodeus
Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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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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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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when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
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Success is a great healer.
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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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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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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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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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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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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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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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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
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