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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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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If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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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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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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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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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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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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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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