Saul Bellow Quotes
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
Quotes to Explore
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
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To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.
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It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.
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Even if you forget that's not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can't reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
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When the great history of horticulture is written I will be listed among the absent.
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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
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Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.
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It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
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The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
