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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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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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Men are not amusing during the shooting season but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
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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.
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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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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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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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It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
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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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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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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.
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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the best of all good friends is pride.
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