Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and also playwright best understood for his novels The Amazing Ambersons, 1918 (The stunning Ambersons, 1919) and also Alice Adams, 1921.
Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, the son of John S. Tarkington as well as Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. He was called after his uncle Newton Booth, that was then guv of California. He researched at Phillips Exeter Academy, Purdue University and also Princeton University. After that he examined at Princeton, he published Nassau Literary Magazine, belonged to Ivy Club and also formed the Princeton Triangle Club.
He was one of America's most preferred writers of his time, with the books The Two Vanrevels and also Mary's Neck at the yearly American bestseller listing 9 times.
Tarkingtons most well-known job today is The Magnificent Ambersons, partly because of Orson Welles's film of the 1942 and its frequent event on Modern Library's top-100 list of stories. It was the second quantity in Tarkingtons Growth trilogy, which adheres to America's emergence and also the once mighty noble Amberson household empire years following the Civil War until World War One.
Our collection contains 7 quotes who is written / told by Booth.
"He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires"
"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age"
"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 waiting for the millennium"
"Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions"
"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink"
"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some"
"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband"
