Innocence Quotes - Page 17

• I never had innocence.

  Bijou Phillips

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Recovery, Age, Lucky

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.7, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The first casualty of war is innocence.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Firsts, Casualties

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• The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

  Don DeLillo

  Wise, Dying, Cures

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Guilty, Condemnation

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• To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.

  Tobias Wolff

  Needs, Certain

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• When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.

  Dani Shapiro

  Nyc, Quality, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Children, Parent, Alive

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

  Bat for Lashes

  Fun, Reading, Drawing

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• [Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Loss, Thinking, Childhood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

  Molly Crabapple

  World, Sometimes, States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.

  Christine Jennings

  Writing, Garden, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.

  LeCrae

  Real, Games, Play

  "Lecrae Makes Music Concerned With The Soul". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.

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• The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

  Christopher Vogler

  Wise, Teaching, Young

  Christopher Vogler (1998). “The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers”, Michael Wiese Productions

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• So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.

  Todd Solondz

  Dream, Dog, Children

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

  Shane Claiborne

  Rights, Church, Movement

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Glory, Healed

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.

  Jean Houston

  People, Use, Levels

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• Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

  A. J. McLean

  Summer, Loyalty, Honesty

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• Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.

  R. D. Laing

  Thinking, Smell, Self

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

  Robert Plant

  Way, Shame, Lost

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Believe, History

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• The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Weakness, Southerner

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.110, Macmillan

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• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Drug

  Interview with Ted Demme and Ingrid Sischy, "Ingenue", March 1996.

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• We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

  Ronald Reagan

  Play, World, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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