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
men boys land
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
spiritual thinking sky
The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.
believe book writing
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...
men sheep fields
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
christmas children holiday
Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
silly names mouths
Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
boys punishment may
This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.
desire safe males
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
boyhood natural invention
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
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.
personality style doe
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
inspirational marriage wedding
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
gossip denied
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.