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Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
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 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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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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