Gertrude Atherton - Life Quotes

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

Gertrude Atherton
Nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

Gertrude Atherton
Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

Gertrude Atherton
Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

Gertrude Atherton
Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

Gertrude Atherton
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.

Gertrude Atherton
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others — in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance — they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Gertrude Atherton
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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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?

Gertrude Atherton