Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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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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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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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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Success is a great healer.
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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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Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
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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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[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
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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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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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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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the only revenge worth having is success.
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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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In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.
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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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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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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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The final result of too much routine is death in life.
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The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.
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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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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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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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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
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Fame compensates for a column of wants.
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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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There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.
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To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
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Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
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The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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