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  • I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

    Real   Loss   Thinking  
    Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
  • I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

    Loss   Oil   Scandal  
    Source: www.teemingbrain.com
  • One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

    Loss   Innocence   Trauma  
    Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
  • To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

    Book   Fall   Writing  
  • [Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.

    Dream   Memories   Loss  
    Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.179, Penguin
  • Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

    Heart   Loss   Childhood  
  • a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

  • I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

    "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.
  • 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 understand my own loss of innocence.

    Lying   Moving   Writing  
  • All things truly wicked start from innocence.

    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

    War   Loss   Generations  
  • When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

    Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK
  • He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play”, p.530, Simon and Schuster
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