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Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

American - Writer | February 26, 1918 - May 8, 1985

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

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Space Interesting More Outer Space

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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Everything Percent Crap Ninety

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

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Loneliness Story You Write Expert

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

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Man Medical Me Society American Far

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

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Writing Teach First Students Courses

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

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Job Quit Become Writer I Quit

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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Words Mean Two Same Point Here

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

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Writing Short Newspaper First Paid

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

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Live Week Sometimes Five Ten How

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

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Story Insurance First Company Out

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 a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

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Courage Words Writing Story Facts

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

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Good Words You Reason Always Going

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