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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.
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
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
Asmodeus
Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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Thirty
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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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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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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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the best of all good friends is pride.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.
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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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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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.
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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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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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