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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.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
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The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.
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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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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
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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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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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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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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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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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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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Nothing is always absolutely so
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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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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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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