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Awesome Quotes From 11 Famous Writers On Censorship

Celebrate Banned Books Week better by letting Twain, Bradbury, Shaw, and other famous writers remind you how censorship is not awesome. posted

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Awesome Quotes From 11 Famous Writers On C...
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~ Mark Twain

~ George Bernard Shaw

~ Kingsley Amis

~ Andre P. Brink

~ Heinrich Heine

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Ray Bradbury

~ Max Lerner

~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall, this quote is often misattributed to her good friend Voltaire.

~ Voltaire

~ Neil Gaiman

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  • Chris Cohen   Awesome Quotes From 11 Famous Writers...  about a month ago
  • censorship is fucking stupid -me

    tommos
    5 months ago
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  • Those are great quotes.

    tiffanym9
    7 months ago
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  • 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.—John Milton

    calliel2
    7 months ago
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  • ~ Salman Rushdie (he should know)

    eixo
    7 months ago
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  • Puritanism­: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
    —H. L. Mencken
    1880 — 1956

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    7 months ago
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  • These graphics are awful, and so difficult to read. Why not just put the text below the photo if you aren't skilled in graphic design?

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    7 months ago
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  • Yeah, I wish Mark Twain had said that, but he didn't. It was Heinlein, as noted in the Facebook comments above. But Twain DID say this: “[W]hen a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t anger me.”

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    7 months ago
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  • ~ Mae West
    {Convicted in an obscenity trial, fined $500 and sentenced to 10 days in the women's workhouse on Welfare Island. Her only complaint was about the prison underwear}

    Smokin' Joey
    7 months ago
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  • F**k censorship.

    lucyrickyalex
    7 months ago
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  • and twain once again wins the “best person” award.

    TroutMaskReplicant
    7 months ago
  • censorship is

    weeddad69
    7 months ago

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