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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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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
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"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"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."
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"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."
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"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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"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."
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"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."
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"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
Writing
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
Mind
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
Life
"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."
Identity
"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
Journalism
"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."
Reading
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
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