Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction/Novel more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Although he is little read now, in the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author.
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Member of the Delta Delta (Purdue) Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Lived in Kennebunkport, Maine at the height of his fame.
In his later years he was virtually blind from cataracts and had to dictate his work.
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. . .
Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
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.
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. .
