"I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation……" — Theodore Sturgeon
"I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered."
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Theodore Sturgeon
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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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