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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

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 is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#haven #i #stories #way #writing

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#because #everybody #expert #grab #loneliness

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

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

— Jock Sturges

#anonymity #bomb #going #growing #like

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#best #done #everybody #get #i

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#artist #focus #going #inevitably #involved