"When grown people speak of the innocence of……" — William Faulkner

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really… - William Faulkner

"When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it ... his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it."

— William Faulkner

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