Martin Amis Quotes About Innocence

Quotes about: Innocence

• Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Eye, People

• You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.

  Martin Amis

  Blood, Long, Track

• But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

  Martin Amis

  Enemy, Faces, Innocence

  Martin Amis (2014). “Experience”, p.39, Vintage

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