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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
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Frank Lin
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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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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... France is the genius among nations.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like 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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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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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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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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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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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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