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“if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?”

Quote by Gertrude Atherton

Book:Black Oxen

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In this thought-provoking novel, the protagonist grapples with the complexities of aging and the changing nature of self-identity. more

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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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“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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“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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Book:the conqueror

Source: the conqueror

“All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.”

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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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“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.”

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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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Book:The Californians

Source: The Californians

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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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“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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“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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