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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
A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.
— Gertrude 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
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
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
There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
— Gertrude Atherton
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
— 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
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
— 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
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— 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
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
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
— Gertrude Atherton
France is the genius among nations.
— Gertrude Atherton
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
— 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
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
No loose fish enters our quiet bay.
— Gertrude Atherton
If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
— 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
Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
— 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
The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
— Gertrude Atherton
Nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
— Gertrude 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
Fame compensates for a column of wants.
— 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
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
Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
— Gertrude Atherton
The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.
— 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
Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
— Gertrude Atherton
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices ...
— Gertrude Atherton