Quotes by Gertrude Atherton

Gertrude Atherton

… France is the genius among nations.

France

Genius

Nations

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

Forget

Irony

Life Is

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

Hamilton

Portraits

Thieves

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

Men

Why Not

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

People

Wings

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.

Fire

Men

Mother

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

Jesuit

Leader

Revolution

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

Poor

Rich

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.

Inspiration

Morning

Writing

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.

California

Individuality

People

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Amusing

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Artist

Average

Blow

California

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Character

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Civilization

Class

Cooking

Country

Differences

Disappointed

Discrimination

England

Facts

Fate

Fire

Fishes

Forests

Forget

France

Fraud

Fundamentals

Genius

Grief

Habit

Hamilton

Home

Hug

Human Nature

Ifs

Imagination

Individual

Individuality

Inspiration

Intelligent

Irony

Jesuit

Knowledge

Knows

Lasts

Leader

Life Is

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Quotes by Gertrude Atherton

Gertrude Atherton

… France is the genius among nations.

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

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

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?

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

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?

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.

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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