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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 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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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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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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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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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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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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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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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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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