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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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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
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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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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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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 nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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