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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
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By AnonymTheodore Sturgeon
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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