6 Quotes Tagged: naive

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Naive you are
if you believe
life favours those
who aren't naive.

...the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. It is quite technically sophisticated while remaining ideologically naïve.

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

His gravest offence had been to accept the world in which he found himself as normal, rational and right.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900)

world romance naive deception

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Many women do not even have the basic teaching about predators that a wolf mother gives her pups, such as: if it's threatening and bigger than you, flee; if it's weaker, see what you want to do; if it's sick, leave it alone; if it has quills, poison, fangs, or razor claws, back up and go in the other direction; it it smells nice but is wrapped around metal jaws, walk on by.

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