Age Of Innocence Quotes

17 quotes from 17 authors

When you think about the Age of Innocence, the most striking insights often come from those who lived through it. This set of 17 distinct voices offers brief, pointed observations that capture the era’s hopes, anxieties, and social norms, making it a reference for anyone curious about how people framed their world.

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The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one…

Joseph Joubert

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I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

John Boyne

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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

Pamela Meyer

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When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you…

Kylie Minogue

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Being that Heathers, Beetlejuice and Age of Innocence are some of my all-time favorite movies, she, of course, is one of my…

Elisabeth Moss

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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective…

Ang Lee

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“At a funeral the preacher holds nothing back during his sermon and speaks with reality and fear. The Amish believe that during…

Ora-Jay Eash

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“In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the…

Wendy Wasserstein

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Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal…

Octavio Paz

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In 'Age of Innocence,' the opening flowers, that's a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We…

Saul Bass

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In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment…

Pico Iyer

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“The hormones also made me more emotional. I found myself snapping at Chad and Jeff for blasting The Rock and Stone Cold…

Janet Mock

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“Do you know my absolute favorite story about the author of The Age of Innocence ? It’s that she did all of…

Jennifer Wright

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The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The…

Aldous Huxley

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“It was amazing,really,how two people could live and work in basically the same place,and one could completely avoid the other.It just took…

Nora Roberts

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“I have just reread The Age of Innocence. Poor Countess Olenska, so much more alive than everyone in New York. She was…

Ann Patchett

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“Sam Anderson. “The Greatest Novel.” New York Magazine (outline). Jan. 9, 2011. New York is, famously, the everything bagel of megalopolises—one of…

Anonymous

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