#censor

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#reading #writing #life

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life. ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#life #reading #life

We appreciate your coming to us with a copy of your letter to your sister, but it was unnecessary. Your offense was known to us even before the letter's receipt by your sister. Effective as of September 15 the primary responsibility of our isle's new assistant chief postal inspector has been to scan all post for use of illegal letters of the alphabet, then to make nightly reports to the Council. A report has been put on file on your behalf, your official sentence to be forthwith in issuance. ↗

— Mark Dunn

#totalitarianism #censorship

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror ↗

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

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I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#censor #censorship #country #dangerous #each

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. ↗

— Kate Adie

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