"Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."

Freedom, Censorship, Truth, Expression

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"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Do not become a slave to sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I think I have a right to live my life the way I like."

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Activist

Freedom, Life, Choice, Right

"When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

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"When the yoke is broken, the burden is removed."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Freedom, HolySpirit, PhysicalJail, Faith

"It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that."

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"Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones."

Exploration, Humanity, Space, Expansion

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

War, Conflict, Opportunity, Survival

"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."

Language, Identity, Tradition, Speech

"When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?"

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"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

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"We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community."

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"Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!"

Survival, Death, Emotion, Life

"I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college."

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"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."

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