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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#cannot #intensely #lot #people #things

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#important #important things #nobody #people #poorly

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#instead #looking #much #things #you

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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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

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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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

— Jock Sturges

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Physical beauty is such a strange thing. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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