Quote#Death
Censors are dead men
Quote byD. H. Lawrence · 1885–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Censors (1929).
English (original)
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— D. H. Lawrence
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