The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be sitting with my friends; I'll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister. “Pride?” Catelyn snapped. His mocking tone and easy manner made her angry.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and… — Mitch Glazer Copy Share Image
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
How does one earn innocence? - by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful,… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
I remember Phillip Schofield saying to us, just before we started 'SMTV: Live'... 'It will be the best fun you will ever… — Ant McPartlin Copy Share Image
With Bill Clinton, his lawyers always wanted him to say nothing about the Lewinsky scandal. Defendant Clinton had the right to remain… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning.… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit’s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“That was when I saw it: behind the beauty and fake innocence was something else, something cold and calculating. Even when she… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on the wall. It drove… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You sentimentalise them because they're little," she said. "But the format doesn't matter. I have gradually learned that everyone, absolutely everyone of… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
If you want to know who you are, look into the true mirror. The flower will reflect your beauty. The sky will… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
![“I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me…” quote by Nilo Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a26/nilo-cruz-36320_age_i-was-taught-to-lie-at-a-young-age-i-thi_3050601.jpg)
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