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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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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Life
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. – Rebecca West

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Women
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being ones own Trojan horse. – Rebecca West

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Other Quotes from
Censorship
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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

Censorship offends me. – Author Unknown

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Censorship

Every burned book enlightens the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Censorship

You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 1988 October 3rd

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Censorship

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if its writing time, I write. – Jodi Picoult

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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. – Edward Teller

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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann

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