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Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
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banned-books-week
freedom-to-read
intellectual-freedom
ideas
censorship
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
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writing
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intellectual-freedom
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Virginia Woolf |
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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freedom
fear
intellectual-freedom
hypocrisy
perversion
puritanism
sterility
censorship
evil
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Anaïs Nin |
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Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.
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reading
freadom
intellectual-freedom
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Isabel Allende |