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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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
Asmodeus
Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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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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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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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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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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the only revenge worth having is success.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
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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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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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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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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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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 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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