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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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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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Rebecca West
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a persons mind. – Rebecca West

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communication
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Other Quotes from
Censorship
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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Censorship

To reject the word is to reject the human search. – Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging

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Censorship

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

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Censorship

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett

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Censorship

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The essence of a government health care system – for people who have never lived under it and dont know – is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. – Mark Steyn

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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. – Bishop Hall

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