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"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."
"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."
"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."
Explore more quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."
"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
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