Theodore Sturgeon

Quotes

1. There are only three ways of dealing with sex. It may be gratified; it may be repressed; or it may be sublimated. The latter is, through history, often an ideal and frequently a success, but it is always an instability.

   p. 128

2. 

   Morals: They’re nothing but a coded survival instinct!

   p. 175

3. 

   A man with talent eats, sweats, and cares for his children like any other. And if talent is a natural thing, remember that water is also, and fire, and wind; therefore flood and holocaust and hurricane are as natural as talent, and can consume and destroy you.

   p. 27

4. 

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

   p. 40

5. 

   There are always many ways to accomplish anything, but only one of them is really best. Which of them is best—that is the source of all argument on the production of anything, the creator of factions among the designers, and the first enemy of speed and efficiency.

   p. 142

6. 

   That’s fairly common. We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.

   p. 94

7. 

   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.

   p. 1

8. 

   He had been released with alacrity from the office because of his propensity for small office politics. It was a game he still played, and completely aside from his boiled-looking red face and his slightly womanish walk, he was out of place in the field, for boot-licking and back-stabbing accomplish even less out on the field than they do in an office.

   p. 170

9. 

   “God,” he cries, dying on Mars, “God, we made it!”

   p. 15

10. 

    In its shelter they developed a weapon. What is was we shall never know, and our race will live—or we shall know, and our race will perish as theirs perished.

    p. 165

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