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

— Theodore Sturgeon More Than Human (1953)

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

Two Percent Inspiration (1941)

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.

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.

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

Venus Plus X (1960)

Love, Caroline, isn’t…that. Love is everything else that can be between a man and a woman, without that.

To Marry Medusa (1958)

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