Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. Auteur: Booth Tarkington Copy Quote More from Booth Tarkington “As with husbands and wives, so with many fathers and daughters, and so with som…” “My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes …” “Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.” “...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and te…”