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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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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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the best of all good friends is pride.
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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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Plot and melodrama were in every life in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
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Success is a great healer.
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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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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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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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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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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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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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