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Bookshelves of Lesser Doom

A spot for my on-the-fly mini-posts:
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Posts tagged banned books

Sep 27 '11
I don’t have a problem with her forbidding her daughter to read my book. But imposing her personal beliefs on every child at the school makes her no better than a book burner. As the playwright and journalist Clare Booth Luce once put it: “Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
— Sonya Sones, on the many challenges to the ever-fabulous What My Mother Doesn’t Know.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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Sep 27 '11

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Sep 25 '11
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.
— Mark Twain

(Source: Guardian)

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