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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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
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That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
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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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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
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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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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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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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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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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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I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
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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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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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