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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 took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
Gertrude Atherton
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Gertrude Atherton
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
Gertrude Atherton
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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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
Gertrude Atherton
The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
Gertrude Atherton
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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... France is the genius among nations.
Gertrude Atherton
It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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
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 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
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.
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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