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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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Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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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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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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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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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 irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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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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 French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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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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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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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.
Gertrude Atherton
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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the best of all good friends is pride.
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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.
Gertrude Atherton
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
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.
Gertrude Atherton
It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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