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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. — Gertrude Atherton

Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life. — William Atherton

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

Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness. — Michael Atherton

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood. — Nancy Atherton

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

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. — Gertrude Atherton

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth. — Gertrude Atherton

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton

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

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor. — Gertrude Atherton

Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated. — Nancy Atherton

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

There is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything. — Gertrude Atherton

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

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them. — Gertrude Atherton

The best of all good friends is pride. — Gertrude Atherton

If this valley is indeed cursed," Atherton continued, "there's the source. The Muslims named this set of ruins Mao Balegh, which means Cursed City. — James Rollins

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. — Gertrude Atherton

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

The only revenge worth having is success. — 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

It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money — John Atherton

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions — Michael Atherton

No loose fish enters our quiet bay. — Gertrude Atherton

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

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

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. — Gertrude Atherton

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

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

The irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can. — Gertrude Atherton

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

William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis. — James Gray

Clockwise is sunwise - as opposed to 'widdershins', which witches use. — J.S. Atherton

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton

Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist. — Gertrude Atherton

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

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves. — Gertrude Atherton

France is the genius among nations. — Gertrude Atherton

There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly. — Gertrude Atherton

Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention. — Nancy Atherton

Nothing in life is more corroding than habit. — Gertrude Atherton

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you. — William Atherton

Success is a great healer. — Gertrude Atherton

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over. — Gertrude Atherton

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? — Gertrude Atherton

Fame compensates for a column of wants. — Gertrude Atherton

Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them. — Gertrude Atherton

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent. — Gertrude Atherton

Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. — Gertrude Atherton

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. — Gertrude Atherton

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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit. — Gertrude Atherton

Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French. — Gertrude Atherton

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next. — Gertrude Atherton

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance. — Gertrude Atherton

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. — Gertrude Atherton

Power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature. — Gertrude Atherton

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") — Gertrude Atherton

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception. — Gertrude Atherton

A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy - insipid! — Nancy Atherton

When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive. — Nancy Atherton

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type. — Gertrude Atherton

Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding. — Michael Atherton

Self-admiration giveth much consolation. — Gertrude Atherton

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

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing. — Gertrude Atherton

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