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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
Literary Critic
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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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That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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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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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.
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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 most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.
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There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.
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Ask the next question.
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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
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The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.
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