Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is, with William Faulkner and John Updike, one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.
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Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
—Booth Tarkington
Topics: Fate
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
—Booth Tarkington
Topics: Opinion, One liners
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
—Booth Tarkington
Topics: Indecision, Decisions
Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.
—Booth Tarkington
Topics: Romance
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
—Booth Tarkington
Topics: Gratitude, Blessings, Happiness, Appreciation
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