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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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
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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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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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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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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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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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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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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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... France is the genius among nations.
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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.
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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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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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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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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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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 French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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the best of all good friends is pride.
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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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