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“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.”

Quote by Gertrude Atherton

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Gertrude Atherton

Gertrude Atherton was an American author known for her novels and short stories, often focusing on social and moral issues, exploring themes such as women, class, and power. more

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Book:The Californians

Source: The Californians

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Author:Gertrude Atherton

“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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Author: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.”

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Author:Gertrude Atherton

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

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Author: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?”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Lasts Youth Why Not Persist Hereafter

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.”

Ifs World This World

Book:The Californians

Source: The Californians

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

People Knows Care

Book:The Californians

Source: The Californians

“... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.”

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Book:The Californians

Source: The Californians

“I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.”

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Author:Gertrude Atherton