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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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"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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"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."
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"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
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"I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship."
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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."
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"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."
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"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
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"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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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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"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."
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"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
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"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible."
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"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
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"Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know."
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"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive."
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"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."
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"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."
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"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."
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"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
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