"The important task of literature is to free……" — Anais Nin

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• In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
• When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to… — Emily Blunt
• Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote… — Hillary Clinton
• They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us… — Tupac Shakur
• The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate… — Gerald McRaney
• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
• This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform… — Thomas Jefferson
• A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. — Granville Hicks
• If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. — Elias Lyman Magoon
• It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in… — George Jean Nathan
• Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas

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