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Quotation Canapés: No. 2 – Book Banning

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Quote #1

Censorship thrives in silence; silence is its aim.

― James LaRue, On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US

Quote #2

Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people’s noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!

― Art Spiegelman, Maus

Quote #3

We spend so much time urging children to trust us to help them with their problems. Yet we don’t even have the courage to let them read books in which those problems are named for what they are, or to let them freely talk about those problems. So the question I have is this: Why should children trust us? That’s the part that I think the censors have not thought through carefully.

― Leonard S. Marcus, You Can’t Say That! Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

Quote #4

There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Quote #5

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself.

― George Orwell, 1984

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