“One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Yet I had not bargained for this, the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“There was no fear of sandpaper earth, no sense of danger from a bare-skinned spill, for the boy was a child—a six-foot,… — Tony Taylor Copy Share Image
“Never had we ever kissed as lovers; if we touched lips it was as brother and sister. In one moment of emotion,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
“THE TWEE PANTHEON 135 words Wes Anderson: Outsider boy-heroes and tinkling glockenspiels? Check. Perennial struggle between innocence and experience? Check. Sudden, disorienting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In my errant life I roamed To learn the secrets of women and men, Of gods and dreams. I've known all the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind; college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado… — Tony Taylor Copy Share Image
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?” — Claire North Copy Share Image
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics… — John Scott Copy Share Image
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“he'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
“Cream—the richest, sweetest part of milk—is of course our first flavor, the taste, in a spoon, of life’s first freshness and innocence,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image