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Laurie Halse Anderson
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Shout
Censorship is the child of fearthe father of ignoranceand the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.
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Philippa Gregory
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The Red Queen
Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' "Yes i do." she says uncertainly.
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Aberjhani
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I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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Aberjhani
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The River of Winged Dreams
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers' broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed."
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Gregory Maguire
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Wicked: The Life and Times of
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
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Richard Wright
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Black Boy
They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.
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Jeanette Winterson
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The Powerbook
There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the civilisation, but to become that city, that civilisation, you once took a pickaxe and destroyed what you hated, and what you hated was what you did not understand.
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David Baldacci
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The Collectors
For DeHaven it was well worth the extra money to a federal budget that had always allocated more to war than it ever did to peaceful purposes. For a fraction of the cost of one missile he could purchase on the open market every work the library needed to round out its rare books collection. Yet politicians believed that missiles kept you safe, whereas actually books did, and for a simple reason. Ignorance caused wars, and people who read widely were seldom ignorant.
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Richard Dawkins
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The Selfish Gene
Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance
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Ryū Murakami
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In the Miso Soup
And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.
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