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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
Theodore Sturgeon
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
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Ask the next question.
Theodore Sturgeon
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
Theodore Sturgeon
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
Theodore Sturgeon
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Theodore Sturgeon
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
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You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
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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
Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?
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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.
Theodore Sturgeon
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
Theodore Sturgeon
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.
Theodore Sturgeon
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
Theodore Sturgeon
