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Gertrude Atherton

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. She was strong-willed, independent-minded, and sometimes controversial.

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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.

Art, Mysterious, Perversion, Real, Rival, Sex

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.

Book, Ambition, Spices, Learn, Honey, Took

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

Death, Finals, Result, Routine, Too Much

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

Care, Knows, Like, People, Unless

. . . France is the genius among nations.

Among, France, Genius, Nations

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

Demand, Learn, Lessons, Men, Tempting

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Authors, Fact, Facts, Matter, Men, Seldom

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

Amusing, Dear, Men, Shooting

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.

Age, Crimes, Knowing, Lie, Lying

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

Certain, Civilization, Inadequate, Thousand, Years

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.

Enter, Fire, Inform, Men, Mother, Remarkable

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

France, Individual, Individuals, Race, Type

No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

Discrimination, Fish, Fishes, Loose, Quiet

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

Branches, Breed, People, Roots, Unless, Whole

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?

Age, Hereafter, Life, Men, Why Not

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

Changed, Progress, Substance, World

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

Beauties, California, Vices, Youth

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

Art, Saying Nothing, Fraud, Writer, Nothing

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?

Mercy, Occurred, Permits, Poor, Rich

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

Mistake, Wings, People, Enfolded, Pale, Authors

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