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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Even
Rubbed
Salt
Wounds
Likes
Nobody
Respect
Earth
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But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
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