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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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Life
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The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
Gertrude Atherton
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
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?
Gertrude Atherton
Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
Gertrude Atherton
It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
Gertrude Atherton
the best of all good friends is pride.
Gertrude Atherton
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Gertrude Atherton
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
Gertrude Atherton
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude Atherton
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude Atherton
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Gertrude Atherton
I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
Gertrude Atherton
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
