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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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"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."
Energy
"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."
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"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
Understanding
"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."
Voice
"There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now."
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"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
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"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
Nation
"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
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"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."
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"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
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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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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."
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"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."
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"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."
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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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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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"Censorship is the height of vanity."
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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