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John Updike
: The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
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Michael D Perry :
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Idealism is like innocence. The more you live, the more you lose. However, you can do a lot more with idealism than you can innocence. Innocence is a state of mind; idealism is a state of being.
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James Baldwin :
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
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Susan Sontag :
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
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Joseph Joubert :
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Jean Baudrillard :
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Albert Camus :
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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Sir Edward Coke :
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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Ernest Hemingway :
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All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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