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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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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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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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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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... France is the genius among nations.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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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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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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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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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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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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the best of all good friends is pride.
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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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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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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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