“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”
Maurice Sendak
more infosource: “Maurice Sendak: ‘I refuse to lie to children,'” by Emma Brockes, Guardian, October 2, 2011.
category: children, children's story, innocence, truth, writing
medium: Newspaper article
via: Austin Kleon“When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever.”
Tobias Wolff
more infosource: This Boy’s Life (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 286.
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category: adolescence, aging, dream, innocence, youth
medium: Memoir
“…Innocent as my dog Patch,
Barking at his echo…”
Ralph Hodgson
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