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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

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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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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.
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the best of all good friends is pride.
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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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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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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.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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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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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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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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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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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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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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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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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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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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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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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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