Gertrude Atherton frases

• The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

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  Self, Deception, Mind

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• All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

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  Want, Understood, Women Want

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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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  Real, Home, Writing

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• Success is a great healer.

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  Success, Healer

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.95, Broadview Press

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

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  Mystery, Commonplace, Eternal

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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• the only revenge worth having is success.

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  Venganza

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• orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

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  Men, Average, Hug

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press

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• Quiero libros escritos a partir de un cerebro y un corazón y un alma atestados y vitales de Vida, deletreada con una gran L. Quiero poesía rebosante de pasión. Me importan un bledo las "felicidades verbales". Me sirven para los flecos, pero primero quiero que me caliente la prenda.

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  Libro, Pasión, Corazón

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• There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

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  Curiosity, Unsatisfied

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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?

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  Men, Age, Why Not

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• A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

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  Bags, Littles, Superstitions

  Gertrude Atherton (0101). “Black Oxen”, p.264, Prabhat Prakashan

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• sólo hay una cosa que sabemos y es que no sabemos nada.

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  Conocimiento, Sabe, Una Cosa

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

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  People, Care, Knows

  Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.127, Library of Alexandria

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• The final result of too much routine is death in life.

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  Routine, Finals, Too Much

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• nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

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  Life Is, Habit

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• Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

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  Madre, Hombres, Fuego

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• El único rival real del amor es el Arte, ya que en sí mismo es una profunda pasión personal, su función un acto de creación, alimentado por alguna misteriosa perversión del sexo, y exigiendo todas las actividades de la imaginación.

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  Arte, Sexo, Real

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• The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

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  Majority, Generations, Minorities

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• Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

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  Baby, Race, Young Love

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.117, Broadview Press

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• There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

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  Strong, Reading, Moving

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• Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

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  Years, Civilization, Certain

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• Los sureños son los únicos cocineros de los Estados Unidos. La verdadera diferencia entre el Sur y el Norte es que uno disfruta cogiendo dispepsias y el otro no.

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  Real, Differences, Cooking

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “Senator North”, p.103, The Floating Press

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• Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.

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  Mañana, Inspiración, Escritura

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• California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

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  California, Vices, Youth

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “The Avalanche”, p.101, The Floating Press

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• 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.

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  California, People, Individuality

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