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"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
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"Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight."
"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
"I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit."
"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
"We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won't be Joan's [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes-so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children."
"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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