Gertrude Atherton Quotes

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Fanaticism was a more powerful combatant than avarice. - Gertrude Atherton quote.
Fanaticism was a more powerful combatant than avarice.
— Gertrude Atherton The Doomswoman

fanaticism

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength. - Gertrude Atherton quote.
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
— Gertrude Atherton Black Oxen

New York City

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? - Gertrude Atherton quote.
If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
— Gertrude Atherton Black Oxen

theater

The world is equally astonished—and resentful—at every new discovery, but in a short time accepts it as a commonplace.  The layman resents all new ideas, but the adjustment of the human mind to the inevitable is common even among savages. - Gertrude Atherton quote.
The world is equally astonished—and resentful—at every new discovery, but in a short time accepts it as a commonplace.  The layman resents all new ideas, but the adjustment of the human mind to the inevitable is common even among savages.
— Gertrude Atherton Black Oxen

discovery