"I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out……" — Theodore 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 SF is crud."
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Theodore Sturgeon
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60 Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon has 60 quotes on this site.
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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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The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an…
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When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
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More Ammunition Quotes
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There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let…
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists…
— John Ashcroft
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.
— Ronald Reagan
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A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to…
— George Washington
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
— Irving Kaufman
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When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord…
— Emma Goldman
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Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries…
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The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And…
— Barack Obama
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three…
— Ernest Hemingway
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We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.
— Albert Einstein
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