"Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is."

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Source : Love & Death: A Study in Censorship (1949)

Gershon Legman

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“It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.”
“Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.”
“I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves,”

Source : "Mannequins Give Shape to a Venezuelan Fantasy". www.nytimes.com. November 6, 2013.
“I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.”
“Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.”
“The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.”

Source : Dinesh D'Souza (2014). “America: Imagine a World without Her”, p.6, Regnery Publishing
“Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.”
“The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.”

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