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Free  Kurt Vonnegut asked the question, “Who is more to be
pitied? An author bound and gagged by the police, or one living
in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” The way I see
it is this; an author bound by law will always have a cause and
in it an outlet for her passion. She will also live in fear and
anger for her entire life. That kind of anger eats at your soul
and that kind of fear devours you mind. This is not a life to be
envied. But an author who lives a free life without anything to
say, is not free at all. The difference between the two isn’t
that she lives in a dictatorship and he in a democracy, but that
she has thought beyond the world she lives in and he has not.
She has dared. She has questioned the status quo and found it
lacking. If you put her in a free country and gave her a
comfortable life, do you think she would stop writing? Never.
There will always be something left for her to say, and there
will forever be a bat