#innocence

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#innocence #world

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#innocence #slut #teenage-girls #dreams

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #back #budget #changing #different

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#cannot #defend #how #i #imagine

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#caution #feels #guilt #innocence #more

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#back #depression #got #innocence #me

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #cannot #feign #himself #innocence

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#business #illusion #innocence #must #other

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

#done #enough #i #i can #innocence