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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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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Life
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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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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 grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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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 nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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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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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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Success is a great healer.
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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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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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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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