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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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