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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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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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Nothing is always absolutely so
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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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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