... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")” — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
