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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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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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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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the best of all good friends is pride.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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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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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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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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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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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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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 revenge worth having is success.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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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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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