"Here's the point to be made - there……" — Theodore 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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60 Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened…
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If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the…
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Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
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No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
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If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
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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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It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go…
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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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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…
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The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an…
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
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