Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkingtonwas an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 July 1869
CityIndianapolis, IN
CountryUnited States of America
fun fool pretending
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
school boys years
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
gossip denied
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
inspirational marriage wedding
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
american-novelist female male rebuke
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.