"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized.……" — Theodore Sturgeon
"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."
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Theodore Sturgeon
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60 Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened…
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
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Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go…
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against…
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The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an…
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