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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence – a lot passes you by – simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.