"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."
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Pulitzer Prize winnersNovelists from the United StatesPeople from IndianapolisPlaywrights from the United StatesPrinceton University alumni
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The Plutocrat (1927), Ch. 30 (Earl Tinker speaking to Jean-Edouard Le Seyeux)
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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.
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