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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 best of all good friends is pride.
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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.
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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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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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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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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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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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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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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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