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1918–1985 United States
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, 26 February 1918 – 8 May 1985) was an American author of science fiction, essayist, and poet.
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Also known as: Sturgeon, Theodore
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I have been curious about how much personal motive you had for your work. I think that answers it pretty well. I think, too, that you believe what you are saying. Do you know that people who do things for impersonal motives are as rare as fur on a fish?
Memorial (1946)
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called "other", which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
“Oh well. Chacun à son goût, as they say, which means—”
And she stopped me. “Please. Don’t translate. It couldn’t be phrased as well in English.”
I had been about to say “—which means Jack’s son has the gout.”
The Martian and the Moron (1949)