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

- 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.

- Gertrude Atherton

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

- 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…

- Gertrude Atherton

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

- 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?

- Gertrude Atherton

the only revenge worth having is success.

- 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'…

- 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.

- Gertrude Atherton