Monday, January 17, 2011

Mark Twain on Censorship

Mark Twain on Censorship : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:
'But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.'
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