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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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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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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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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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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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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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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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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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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
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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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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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