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I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder. -- John Boyne
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. -- Ang Lee
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. -- Bo Bennett
I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for... my memories aged nought to ten... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun. -- Johnny Vegas
I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work. -- Matthew James Thomas
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. -- Stephen Bayley
In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin. -- Pico Iyer
When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence. -- Kylie Minogue
There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. -- Samuel Johnson
One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence. -- Lawrence Fagg
I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could. -- Pedro
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . . -- May Sarton

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