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
heart people heaven
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.
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.
personality style doe
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.
either happens seriously work
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously