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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 irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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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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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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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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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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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... France is the genius among nations.
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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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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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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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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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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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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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