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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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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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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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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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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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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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.
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when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
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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.
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genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
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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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the only revenge worth having is success.
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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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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Gertrude Atherton
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
Gertrude Atherton
