Booth Tarkington Quote

The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.


Growth (ed. 1927)


The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left ...

The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left ...

The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left ...

The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left ...