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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 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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"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 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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"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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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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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"I don't believe in censorship in any form."
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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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"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
Nation
"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."
Fiction
"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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"I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used."
Work
"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."
Government
"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."
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"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out."
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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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"I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it."
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