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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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
Writer
Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
Hope
Fear
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Survival
Way
Somewhere
Comfort
Alive
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