Frasi di Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon è stato un autore di fantascienza statunitense.

✵ 26. Febbraio 1918 – 8. Maggio 1985
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Theodore Sturgeon: Frasi in inglese

“God," he cries, dying on Mars, "God, we made it!”

published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1959
The Man Who Lost The Sea

“An ethic isn’t a fact you can look up. It’s a way of thinking.”

Theodore Sturgeon libro More Than Human

Origine: More Than Human (1953), Chapter 3, p. 183

“A pig among people is a pig, he tells himself, but a pig among pigs is people.”

Theodore Sturgeon libro Venus Plus X

Section 38 (p. 118)
Venus Plus X (1960)

“It means "Ask the next question." Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created, and is the reason it has been created. This guy is sitting in a cave and he says, "Why can't man fly?"”

Well, that's the question. The answer may not help him, but the question now has been asked.
The next question is what? How? And so all through the ages, people have been trying to find out the answer to that question. We've found the answer, and we do fly. This is true of every accomplishment, whether it's technology or literature, poetry, political systems or anything else. That is it. Ask the next question. And the one after that.

His explanation of the meaning of a small symbol he used when writing his signature, as quoted in an interview with David Duncan (with an image of his signature) http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/duncan.html, sometime around 1980.

“Now how can you like a man without wanting him?”

Theodore Sturgeon libro Venus Plus X

she demands of herself aloud.
There is no answer. It is an article of faith with her. If you like a man, it has to be because you want him. Whoever heard of it any other way?
Section 32 (p. 101)
Venus Plus X (1960)

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