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Alice Adams QUOTES

Alice Adams QUOTES

1 " Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field. "

― Booth Tarkington , Alice Adams

2 " Is this life?'Alice wondered, not doubting that the question was original and all her own. 'Is it life to spend your time imagining things that aren't so, and never will be? Beautiful things happen to other people; why should I be the only one they never can happen to? "

― Booth Tarkington , Alice Adams

3 " So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked 'Reserved": the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once. "

― Booth Tarkington , Alice Adams

4 " ...I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. "

― Booth Tarkington , Alice Adams

5 " As with husbands and wives, so with many fathers and daughters, and so with some sons and mothers: the man will himself be cross in public and think nothing of it, nor will he greatly mind a little crossness on the part of the woman; but let her show agitation before any spectator, he is instantly reduced to a coward's slavery. Women understand that ancient weakness, of course; for it is one of their most important means of defense, but can be used ignobly. "

― Booth Tarkington , Alice Adams

6 " You see?" she said. "I've been leading you without you knowing it. Of course that's because you're new to the town, and you give yourself up to the guidance of an old citizen."

"I'm not so sure, Miss Adams. It might mean that I don't care where I follow so long as I follow you. "

― Booth Tarkington , Alice Adams

7 " In the eyes of the restless and the longing, Providence often appears to be worse than inscrutable: an unreliable Omnipotence given to haphazard whimsies in dealing with its own creatures, choosing at random some among them to be rent with tragic deprivations and others to be petted with blessing upon blessing. "

― Booth Tarkington , Alice Adams

8 " For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement. Youth really believes what is running water to be a permanent crystallization and sees time fixed to a point... "

― Booth Tarkington , Alice Adams