Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

David Cronenberg
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. This quote is a humorous way of describing the power of the mind, and the fact that we often create illusions in order to cope with our circumstances.

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