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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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"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."

"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."

"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."

"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."

"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."

"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."

"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."

"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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"Even if everybody says it's impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying."

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"Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell."

"We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others."
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