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To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. ↗
It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory. ↗
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living? ↗
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them ↗
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. ↗
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? ↗
