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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
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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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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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
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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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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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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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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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