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.
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 wai… - Booth Tarkington
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 wai…
- Booth Tarkington
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. - Booth Tarkington
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. - Booth Tarkington
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. - Booth Tarkington
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual… - Booth Tarkington
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual…
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous. - Booth Tarkington
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. - Booth Tarkington
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. - Booth Tarkington
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. - Booth Tarkington
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
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