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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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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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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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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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the best of all good friends is pride.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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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.
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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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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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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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... France is the genius among nations.
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