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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.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

tags: banned-books, censorship, evil, fear, freedom, hypocrisy, intellectual-freedom, literature, perversion, puritanism, sterility

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“Your tears cannot affect the weather. There are wars going on. The one in your body is the only one you can be sure of losing or winning, then losing again. You”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

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“What turns the milk sky pink?
Is it the sins of the world,
bleeding up into the atmosphere
reddening the clouds up above
or is it love. Could it be
love? Jesus Christ,
can there be love?
There will be more love,
says the sky,
There will be more love.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

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“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: banned-books, banned-books-week, books, censorship, freedom-to-read, ideas, intellectual-freedom

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“It wasn’t perfect. It isn’t now. I still have days when I want to exit the system quicker then you can say, “don’t you dare give up now”, and you still have days where you can’t even taste the sweetness in raw honey and neither one of us believes in pills. Days when I so want to kiss you but your mouth is sour and my thoughts are bitter and I’m angry…just mad, just crazy with it all. But we are each others home sweet home, Love. The roof is screwed on too tight at times and the walls of our purple house can pinch a little but my God, they are always warm.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward

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