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

— Theodore Sturgeon Two Percent Inspiration (1941)

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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.

More Than Human (1953)

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.

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)

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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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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