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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
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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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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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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
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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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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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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
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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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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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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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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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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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Ask the next question.
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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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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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