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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
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Literary
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Science Fiction Writer
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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