“In this growing there are no really new things or new situations. There are only things growing out right, or things growing out deformed or shriveled.”
Source: The Flame is Green (1971), Ch. 9 : Oh, The Steep Roofs of Paris
Context: In this growing there are no really new things or new situations. There are only things growing out right, or things growing out deformed or shriveled. There is nothing new about railways or foundries or lathes or steel furnaces. They also are green-growing things. There is nothing new about organizations of men or of money. All these growing things are good, if they grow towards the final answers that were given in the beginning.
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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”
As quoted in Doris Day : Her Own Story (1975) as told to A. E. Hotchner
"A Sad Heart at the Supermarket," Daedalus, vol. 89, no. 2 (Spring 1960); published in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962)
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“Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.”
"Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve".
Hesperides (1648)
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
Source: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 14
“Things which do not grow and change are dead things.”
