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the best of all good friends is pride.
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 very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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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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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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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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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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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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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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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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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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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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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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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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the only revenge worth having is success.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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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 two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
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