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Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#angry #been #down #ever #exist

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#five #how #i #learned #live

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#editor #every #field #i #letter

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#each #focused #itself #scene #sentences

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#degree #desires #devastating #forever #lose

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#always #birth #homo #homo sapiens #i

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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