I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor. Gertrude Atherton More Quotes by Gertrude Atherton More Quotes From Gertrude Atherton 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. Gertrude Atherton knowing age lying fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist. Gertrude Atherton historian fiction Fame compensates for a column of wants. Gertrude Atherton columns want fame It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England. Gertrude Atherton disappointed england imagination Self-admiration giveth much consolation. Gertrude Atherton admiration self healing Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth. Gertrude Atherton pride lying To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. Gertrude Atherton demand lessons men The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. Gertrude Atherton commonplace eternal mystery orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them. Gertrude Atherton hug average men No loose fish enters our quiet bay. Gertrude Atherton fishes discrimination quiet 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 passion heart book Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all. Gertrude Atherton persistence california rain California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices. Gertrude Atherton california youth vices 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. Gertrude Atherton california individuality people The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not. Gertrude Atherton differences cooking real Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago. Gertrude Atherton certain civilization years No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. Gertrude Atherton class civilization country The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. Gertrude Atherton childhood lasts grief 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 Gertrude Atherton mistake wings people It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over. Gertrude Atherton fate character years
