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Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen o

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? – Kurt Vonnegut

Other quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so theyll have good voice boxes in case theres ever anything really meaningful to say. – Kurt Vonnegut

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good
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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. – Kurt Vonnegut

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War
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Crying
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. – Taslima Nasrin

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Freedom

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. – Rosa Luxemburg

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Freedom

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nations heart, the excision of its memory. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Freedom

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech – and the freedom of dreaming, really. – Petra Nemcova

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Freedom

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In some ways Im still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. Ive gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason. – Christopher Darden

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Wise Words

It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov

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War

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. – H. L. Mencken

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Money