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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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
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the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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the best of all good friends is pride.
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