It's the simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
Theodore Sturgeon Quotes
1918–1985 United States
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, 26 February 1918 – 8 May 1985) was an American author of science fiction, essayist, and poet.
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Also known as: Sturgeon, Theodore
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More Than Human (1953)
More Than Human (1953)
There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.
More Than Human (1953)
A pig among people is a pig, he tells himself, but a pig among pigs is people.
Venus Plus X (1960)
To Marry Medusa (1958)
More Than Human (1953)
Show me a nagging woman and I’ll show you one who hasn’t enough to worry about.
Mewhu's Jet (1946)
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
I wouldn’t give you sand if I met you on the beach.
To Marry Medusa (1958)
An ethic isn’t a fact you can look up. It’s a way of thinking.
More Than Human (1953)
That Heel. That lousy wart on the nose of progress.
Two Percent Inspiration (1941)
More Than Human (1953)
As Adam said when his wife fell out of the tree—Eve’s dropping again.
Venus Plus X (1960)
To Marry Medusa (1958)
Killdozer! (1944)
Kirk: The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.
“God,” he cries, dying on Mars, “God, we made it!”
The Man Who Lost the Sea (1959)
Ask the next question. And the one after that.
That’s fairly common. We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.
More Than Human (1953)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Theodore Sturgeon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.