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Booth Tarkington

“I mean 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. You know how wreath of smoke goes up from a chimney, and seems all thick and black and busy against the sky, as if it were going to do such important things and last forever, and you see it getting thinner and thinner—and then, in such a little while, it isn't there at all; nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.”

Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
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The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2) The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
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