"They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover."

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Source : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2630, eBookIt.com

Booth Tarkington

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“There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.”

Source : "Her brilliant career" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2004.
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”
“Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.”
“No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.”
“In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet”
“I'm doing what I like, why wouldn't I be happy? So what if it's not perfect, I don't believe in perfection. Maybe happy's as good as it gets.”

Source : John Dunning (2004). “The Bookman's Promise: A Cliff Janeway Novel”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“I have never been a shooter.”

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