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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.
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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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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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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
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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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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 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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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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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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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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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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Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
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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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