"Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing."

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... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

— Bohumil Hrabal