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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
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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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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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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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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A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.
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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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There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.
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I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
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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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