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"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."
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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."
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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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"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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"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
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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 don't believe in censorship in any form."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"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."
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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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"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material."
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"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
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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, 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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"You can do whatever you want with my work."
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"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."
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"There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now."
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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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"Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it."
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"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
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