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I have been curious about how much personal motive you had for your work. I think that answers it pretty well. I think, too, that you believe what you are saying. Do you know that people who do things for impersonal motives are as rare as fur on a fish?

— Theodore Sturgeon Memorial (1946)

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It's the simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

Two Percent Inspiration (1941)

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.

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The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken.

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There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.

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A pig among people is a pig, he tells himself, but a pig among pigs is people.

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