Booth Tarkington Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

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  Boyhood, Natural, Invention

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Penrod”, p.31, Booklassic

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• 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.

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  Boys, Punishment, Doe

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2564, eBookIt.com

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• Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

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  Kings, Book, Spain

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Gentle Julia”, p.2, Booklassic

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• Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

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  Christmas, Children, Holiday

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.82, Booklassic

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• I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

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  Spiritual, Men, Civilization

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.161, Booklassic

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• Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

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  Mother, Angel, Son

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.56, Booklassic

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