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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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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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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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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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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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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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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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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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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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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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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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 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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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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