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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
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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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 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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the best of all good friends is pride.
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Success is a great healer.
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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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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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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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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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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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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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... France is the genius among nations.
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