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"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."
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"I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy."
"Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing."
"The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see."
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