Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

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• You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Writing

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• Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• Writing is a communication.

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  Communication, Writing

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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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  Dog, Reflection, Mirrors

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• Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

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  Law, Thrive, Crap

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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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  Two, Mind, Different

  "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 2, p. 97, 1953.

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• Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

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  Lightning, Strikes

  Theodore Sturgeon (2000). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.80, North Atlantic Books

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• There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

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• 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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  People, Helping, Moral

  "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 3, p. 181, 1953.

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• I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

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  Writing, Stories, Letters

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• I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

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  Writing, Firsts, Students

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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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  Fiction, Limits, Fields

  Interview with David Duncan, www.physics.emory.edu.

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• It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

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  Simple, Trying, Remember

  Theodore Sturgeon (1984). “Alien cargo”, St Martins Press

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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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  Love, Heart, Hands

  Theodore Sturgeon (1986). “Godbody”, Dutton Adult

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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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  Mean, Survival, Comfort

  Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”

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• Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

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  Fiction, Science Fiction, Ninety

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• 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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  Mean, Two, Made

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• That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

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  Believe, Want, Common

  Theodore Sturgeon (1999). “Baby is Three”, p.376, North Atlantic Books

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• No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

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  Men, Years, People

  Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams (1995). “Microcosmic God”, p.137, North Atlantic Books

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• Nothing is always absolutely so

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  Fun

  Theodore Sturgeon (2003). “And Now the News--”, p.99, North Atlantic Books

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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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  Farms

  Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”

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• 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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  People, Important, Want

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• Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

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  Space, Interesting, Empty

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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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  Loneliness, Soul, Quality

  Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

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• Ask the next question.

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  Next, Asks

  Theodore Sturgeon (2009). “Slow Sculpture”, p.120, North Atlantic Books

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