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Gertrude Atherton

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    [Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

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    A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

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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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    A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

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    Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

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    Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

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    California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

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    Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

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    Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

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    Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

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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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    Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

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    her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

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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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    I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

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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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    I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.

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    In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

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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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    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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    It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

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    No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

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    No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

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    No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

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    nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

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    Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

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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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    Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

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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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    Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

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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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    Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

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    stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

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    Success is a great healer.

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    the best of all good friends is pride.

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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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    The final result of too much routine is death in life.

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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 human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

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    ... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

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    The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

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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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    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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    There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.