“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”
Source: Revolutionary Road
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Novelist, short story writer 1926–1992Related quotes

The Moaning of Life, Karl on Kids
Part 1, Chapter 7.5; Nora's comment on her changes since meeting Travis
Watchers (1987)

“I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.”
Quoted in Paul Kelly, 100 Years – The Australian Story (Allen & Unwin, ABC Books, NSW, 2001), p. 196

Dirge; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 342-44.

“The problem of independence did not lie in a change of forms but in change of spirit.”
Our America (1881)
Context: America began to suffer, and still suffers, from the tiresome task of reconciling the hostile and discordant elements it inherited from the despotic and perverse colonizer, and the imported methods and ideas which have been retarding logical government because they are lacking in local realities. Thrown out of gear for three centuries by a power which denied men the right to use their reason, the continent disregarded or closed its ears to the unlettered throngs that helped bring it to redemption, and embarked on a government based on reason-a reason belonging to all for the common good, not the university brand of reason over the peasant brand. The problem of independence did not lie in a change of forms but in change of spirit.

“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”
Source: Handle with Care

"The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.