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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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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
Gertrude Atherton
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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.
Gertrude Atherton
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
Gertrude Atherton
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude Atherton
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
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
Gertrude Atherton
Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
Gertrude Atherton
... France is the genius among nations.
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.
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
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.
Gertrude Atherton
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Gertrude Atherton
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
Gertrude Atherton
Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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
... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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
