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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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California
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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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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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Plot and melodrama were in every life in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
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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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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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... France is the genius among nations.
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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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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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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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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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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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Success is a great healer.
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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.
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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 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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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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