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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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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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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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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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 nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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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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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Men are not amusing during the shooting season but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
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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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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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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 only revenge worth having is success.
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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.
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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 human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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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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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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