“People grow up by living.”

— Alice Sebold, book The Lovely Bones

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American writer 1963

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Context: That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.