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"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."
"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."
"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."
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