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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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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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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
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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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