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"Censorship is the height of vanity."
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"Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them."
"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
"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."
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."
"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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