#banned

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons. ↗

— Ruth First

#banned #book #both #communicating #discuss

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #magnus-banned-from-peru #city

When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book. ↗

— Craig Nelson

#catalog #censorship #censorship

You know I've had work banned. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#had #i #know #work #you

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. ↗

— Tori Amos

#father #house #minister #music #our

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#allow #along #banned #beauty #courage

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#censorship #profanity #censorship

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ↗

— Stephen King

#censorship #challenged-books #freedom-of-speech #freedom

I think that candidates who have pending cases of blood crimes and economic crimes must be definitely banned. ↗

— Francois Bozize

#blood #candidates #cases #crimes #definitely

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned. ↗

— Jung Chang

#book #china #chinese #copies #gone