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Quotes from Innocence — Penelope Fitzgerald

1916–2000 England

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There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.

Innocence (1986)

A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either.

Innocence (1986)

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