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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
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Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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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.
Gertrude Atherton
I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
Gertrude Atherton
Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?
Gertrude Atherton
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Gertrude Atherton
Men are not amusing during the shooting season but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
Gertrude Atherton
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
Gertrude Atherton
It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
Gertrude Atherton
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
Gertrude Atherton
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
Gertrude Atherton
It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
Gertrude Atherton
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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if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
Gertrude Atherton
Success is a great healer.
Gertrude Atherton
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude Atherton
... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
