Innocence Quotes - Page 35

• I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Longing, Lost, Remove

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• I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Loss, Oil, Scandal

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• Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in very real terms - of mixed innocence and sin. It is seen by townsfolk as idyllic, lazy, free of urban crime and social problems. But those who grow up in the country can tell stories that often surprise those who grow up in the towns.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Country, Growing Up, Real

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• You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  World, Might, Another World

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• Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Writing

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Historical, Trying, Achieve

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].

  David LaChapelle

  Believe, Cracks, Watches

  Source: wwd.com

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• Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Jobs, Children, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Kind, Sometimes

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.

  Shelby Steele

  Past, Opportunity, Offering

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My parents are pretty liberal. But they were just you know trying to look out for my innocence or whatever. But my babysitter had "Forever" [by Judy Blume]. And I said "Well I've read Judy Blume books, can I borrow that?" And she said no, this one's not appropriate for you. Which obviously, got me really worked up. So I took it.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Parent, Forever

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.

  Jon Stewart

  Kids, Thinking, World

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.

  Sophia Loren

  Eye, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Regarding the children in Israel who made the first known world change in history using the Bible Code, they left a statement which they wrote on a rock, in Hebrew: "If it is not simple, it simply will not be," meaning that they have decided that if there is not an innocence, a simplicity in the actions of the world, they are simply going to erase it.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Children, Simple, Rocks

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country and there is still a kind of innocence in America that translates very well everywhere in the world.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, Culture, Able

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Humanity, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.

  Ezra Edelman

  People, Guilt, One Day

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• I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our innocence is one of the most important acts of self-liberation and de-colonization. Not letting the requirement that we adapt to impossible circumstances and unconscionable crimes leave us shackled to the kind of cynicism and armor such that we can't breathe and laugh and magnetize to ourselves all the genius and love and support that we need to transform the situation. That's probably the biggest challenge, is to recover our innocence.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, Laughing, Support

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

  Laura Lippman

  Thinking, Facts, Lines

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• The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grief, Sadness, Loss

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• The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

  Truman Capote

  Artist, Criminals, Common

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.65, Vintage

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• Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Nightmare

  Ellen Hopkins (2010). “Fallout”, p.526, Simon and Schuster

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• Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

  William Blake

  Philosophy, Believe, Eagles

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.175, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

  Beryl Markham

  Dog, Horse, Believe

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.122, Open Road Media

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