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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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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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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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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
Gertrude Atherton
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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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude Atherton
We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
Gertrude Atherton
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Gertrude Atherton
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
Gertrude Atherton
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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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.
Gertrude Atherton
the only revenge worth having is success.
Gertrude Atherton
It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
Gertrude Atherton
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
Gertrude Atherton
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
Gertrude Atherton
... France is the genius among nations.
Gertrude Atherton
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
Men are not amusing during the shooting season but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
Gertrude Atherton
