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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
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New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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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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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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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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