“You have questions—urgent questions—I know that. And what makes them urgent is that you have in your mind the answers you want to hear. You will be more and more angry if you do not get those answers, but some can’t be given as you would hear them, because they would not be true.”

— Theodore Sturgeon , book Venus Plus X

Source: Venus Plus X (1960), Section 13 (p. 40)

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American speculative fiction writer 1918–1985

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