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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.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
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I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
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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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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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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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Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
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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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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 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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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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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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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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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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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
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