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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
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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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Ask the next question.
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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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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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.
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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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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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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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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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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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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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