2007 Zimbabwean Political Crisis - Literature

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“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
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“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.”
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“The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.”
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