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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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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Stoicism
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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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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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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Success is a great healer.
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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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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 very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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?
Gertrude Atherton
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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