Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

Fiction Stories

Problem

Writing

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

Can Do

Enough

Want

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

Existence

Fiction

Trash

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Helping

Moral

People

Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

Loneliness

Lonely

Long

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

Comfort

Mean

Survival

For years, I thought I simply didn’t dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn’t have.

Dream

Felt

Years

Here’s the point to be made – there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

Made

Mean

Two

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn’t know it.

Astonishment

Dream

Knows

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don’t dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

Conviction

Dream

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Believe

Brother

Can Do

Comeback

Comfort

Common

Conviction

Crap

Different

Dollars

Dream

Drinking

Earth

Empty

Enough

Existence

Felt

Fiction

Fiction Stories

Fields

Fire

Firsts

Fun

Funny

Good Writers

Hands

Heart

Helping

Hot

Humor

I Can

Ifs

Important

Interesting

Knows

Law

Life

Lightning

Limits

Loneliness

Lonely

Long

Looks

Love

Made

Mean

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Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

For years, I thought I simply didn’t dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn’t have.

Here’s the point to be made – there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn’t know it.

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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