"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?“


-Kurt Vonnegut

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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

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