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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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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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 irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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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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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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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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the best of all good friends is pride.
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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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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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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
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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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude Atherton
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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