The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
The final result of too much routine is death in life. - Gertrude Atherton
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
- Gertrude Atherton
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. - Gertrude Atherton
The very commonplaces of life are components of its 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
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
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 spo… - Gertrude Atherton
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 spo…
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. - 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.
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'… - 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'…
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. - Gertrude Atherton
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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
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?
the only revenge worth having is success. - Gertrude Atherton
the only revenge worth having is success.
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