I DON’T WANT TO REPEAT MY INNOCENCE. I JUST WANT THE…

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald…

— Declan Lynch

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously…

— Anthony Burgess

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

— Martin Amis

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

— Michael Pollan

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best,…

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

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…

— Anonymous

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect…

— James T. Walsh

“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and is an…

— Brad Goreski

“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the…

— Erik Pevernagie

It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for…

— Anonymous

You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of…

— Jean Houston

It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a…

— Harold McGee

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have…

— Milan Kundera