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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
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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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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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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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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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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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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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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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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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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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