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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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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
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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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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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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
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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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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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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
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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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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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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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Ask the next question.
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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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Fear is a survival instinct fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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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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Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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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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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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