#ow

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#dream #find #i #i do #know

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

#five #how #i #learned #live

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#fiction #out #own #realities #science

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#field #find #how #keep #learning

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

#always #arm #back #because #behind

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#anonymity #bomb #going #growing #like

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#books #child #every #extent #get

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#angles #any #anything #avoid #body

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#families #i #know #known #long