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  • Yes, they say, go and write whatever story you want, but don't use whatever language is necessary† By implication those in authority ask the writer to censor and suppressheror his ownwork.Theydemand it.If you don't comply then your work isn't produced.

    -James Kelman
      Some Recent  Attacks,'The Importance of Glasgow in My Work'.

  • But they can't censor the gleam in my eye.

    - Charles Laughton
      Of his role of Mr Barrett in The Barretts of  Wimpole Street.

  • It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

    - Lech Walesa
      'Censorship'.

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