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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
France
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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 irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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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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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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 best of all good friends is pride.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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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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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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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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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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