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Tag Name "Innocence" (557)

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I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.
Daniel Handler
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It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence yes, and its beauty, too.
Paul Gallico
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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
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I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.
Dick Morris
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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
John Lydon
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But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
David Cronenberg
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Where were you born? On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered. No, no. In what state were you born? In a state of innocence.
Joseph Heller
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After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.
Jhonen Vasquez
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Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.
Matthew Scully
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The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
Frederic Farrar
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Nay, droop not, fellows innocence should be bold.
Philip Massinger
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It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.
Santino Fontana
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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were
Horace
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Denis Diderot
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Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only.
Julia Quinn
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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Mason Cooley
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
Agnes Varda
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They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.
Mira Grant
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We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.
Doc Hastings
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Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
Roger Scruton
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What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
Klaus Nomi
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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
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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
William Blake
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Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
Jewel
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