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the only revenge worth having is success.
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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if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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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?
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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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Plot and melodrama were in every life in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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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 grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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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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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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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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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 very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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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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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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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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