“In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent”
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
Source: 1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 5
“In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent”
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”
Louis Kronenberger (1904–1980) American critic and writer
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)
“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
Joan Didion (1934) American writer
Source: On Self-Respect
“Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
“Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #31
Athenäum (1798 - 1800)
Context: Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.