Booth Tarkington

thumb|Booth Tarkington Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist. He is one of the three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Quotes "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. I am not sure. But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us suspect." The Magnificent Ambersons (1918), Ch. 19 The somewhere we're goin' to, and got to go to if we don't want to get wiped out, it's somewhere everlastingly and eternally ahead! It's like to-morrow; when we get there we aren't there; we got to keep goin', and we got to everlastingly and eternally keep goin' – and goin' fast! If we don't, the Almighty hasn't got a bit o' use for us; He turns us right into dust and scattered old bones, and nothin's left of our whole country and our finest cities except some street paving and a few cellars with weeds in 'em. The Plutocrat (1927), Ch. 30 (Earl Tinker speaking to Jean-Edouard Le Seyeux) External links Category:Novelists from the United States Category:1869 births Category:1946 deaths Category:People from Indianapolis Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:Princeton University alumni