Alive Quote by Theodore 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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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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