The Quiet American Innocence Quotes

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Quote #10

What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

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He was impregnably armoured by his good intentions and his ignorance. (3.2.2.47,49)

Fowler can't control Pyle, so he sees only one other option. Is this fatalism? Yeah, totally.