Conviction Quote by Theodore 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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As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

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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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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

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“Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell,…

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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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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…

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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…

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It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

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

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Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against…

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