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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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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 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 human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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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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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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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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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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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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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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the only revenge worth having is success.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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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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