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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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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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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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That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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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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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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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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An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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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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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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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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