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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as inde

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West

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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul… – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897 [characte

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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. – Thomas Bowdler

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Censorship: protecting you from reality. – Author unknown

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