Quote by Theodore Sturgeon
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mi

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isnt fiction at all. – Theodore Sturgeon

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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Dreams
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didnt have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didnt have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Courage
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Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. – Terrence Howard

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I realize that humor isnt for everyone. Its only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. – Anne Wilson Schaef

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Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger. – Allen Klein

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Ive got a great sense of humor. – Anthony Hopkins

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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. – Neil Armstrong

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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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Every good painter paints what he is. – Jackson Pollock

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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution. – Sandra Day OConnor

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