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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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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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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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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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the only revenge worth having is success.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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