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... France is the genius among nations.
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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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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Success is a great healer.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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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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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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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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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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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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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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