It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and … - Katharine Whitehorn

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Katharine Whitehorn

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

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The case against censoring anything is absolute:. . . nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

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[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

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It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

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