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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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Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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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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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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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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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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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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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 took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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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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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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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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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?
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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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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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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Success is a great healer.
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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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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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