Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) American speculative fiction writer
Source: Short fiction, The Martian and the Moron (1949), p. 44
“The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.”
— Jonathan Franzen, book Freedom
Source: Freedom
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