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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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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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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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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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the best of all good friends is pride.
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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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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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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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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Success is a great healer.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.
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