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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.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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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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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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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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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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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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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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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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... France is the genius among nations.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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.
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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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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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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
Gertrude Atherton
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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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.
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.
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