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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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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
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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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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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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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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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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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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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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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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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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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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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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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