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Theodore Sturgeon, de son vrai nom Edward Hamilton Waldo ou Edward Waldo, né le 26 février 1918 et mort le 8 mai 1985 , est un écrivain américain de fantastique, de science-fiction ou d'horreur, dont le talent s'est exprimé à travers de nombreuses nouvelles et plusieurs romans.

Plus que son style, l'ambiance et les thèmes abordés dans ses écrits font de cet auteur un cas particulier dans l'univers de la SF et du fantastique. Certains parlent à juste titre d'un univers « sturgeonien ». On retrouve dans ses écrits des traces d'événements de sa vie qu'il a explorée d'une manière presque « thérapeutique » pour en faire quelques chefs-d'œuvre, où l'humain prime toujours… Wikipedia

✵ 26. février 1918 – 8. mai 1985

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Theodore Sturgeon citations célèbres

“Vois-tu Bunny, il y a un philosophe français qui a dit « Je pense, donc je suis.» Horty est la quintessence de cet adage.”

Theodore Sturgeon livre Cristal qui songe

Citations de ses romans, Cristal qui songe, 1950

“Leurs rêves ne sont pas des pensées, des ombres, des images, des sons, comme les nôtres. Ils sont faits de chair, de sève, de bois, d'os et de sang.”

Theodore Sturgeon livre Cristal qui songe

Citations de ses romans, Cristal qui songe, 1950

“L'humanité est un concept familier aux anormaux: à leur grand désespoir, ils s'en sentent en effet tout proches; ils expriment leur parenté avec elle dans un sanglot de regret et ne cessent jamais de tendre vers elle leurs bras difformes.”

Theodore Sturgeon livre Cristal qui songe

Citations de ses romans, Cristal qui songe, 1950

“Toutes les actions des créatures humaines procèdent d'un impératif unique :« Survis! »”

Theodore Sturgeon livre Cristal qui songe

Citations de ses romans, Cristal qui songe, 1950

“Il s'en dégageait une impression de permanence, de vie si prolongée que la mort n'était plus un facteur psychologique, mais une pure conclusion esthétique.”

Theodore Sturgeon livre Cristal qui songe

Citations de ses romans, Cristal qui songe, 1950

“Il n'y avait rien dans ce monde étrange qui pût dissiper les ténèbres de l'inconscience.”

Theodore Sturgeon livre Cristal qui songe

Citations de ses romans, Cristal qui songe, 1950

Theodore Sturgeon: Citations en anglais

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

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Theodore Sturgeon

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

“There are only three ways of dealing with sex. It may be gratified; it may be repressed; or it may be sublimated. The latter is, through history, often an ideal and frequently a success, but it is always an instability.”

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Theodore Sturgeon livre Venus Plus X

Section 41 (p. 128)
Venus Plus X (1960)

“There were a lot of people living in his time who never did latch on to the idea that the curve of technological progress was not a flat slanting line like a diving board, but a geometrical curve like a ski-jump. These wistful and mixed-up souls were always suffering from attacks of belated conservatism, clutching suddenly at this dying thing and that, trying to keep it or bring it back. It wasn’t real conservatism at all, of course, but an unthought longing for the dear old days when one could predict what would be there tomorrow, if not next week. Unable to get the big picture, they welcomed the conveniences, the miniaturization of this and the speed of that, and then were angrily confused when their support of these things changed their world.”

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Theodore Sturgeon livre Venus Plus X

Section 11 (p. 33)
Venus Plus X (1960)

“And Charlie asked questions! His unease had long since disappeared, and two of his most deep-dyed characteristics took over: one, the result of his omnivorous, undisciplined, indefatigable reading and picking of brains; second, the great gaping holes this had left in his considerable body of knowledge. Both appeared far more drastic than he had heretofore known; he knew ever so much more than he knew he knew, and he had between five and seven times as much misinformation and ignorance than he had ever dreamed.”

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Theodore Sturgeon livre Venus Plus X

Section 19 (p. 59)
Venus Plus X (1960)

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

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Theodore Sturgeon livre More Than Human

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

“Pleasure, the outer edge of ecstasy, was in the dour days of Protestantism, considered sinful in itself, wherever gained; Rome held specifically that any or all sexual pleasure was sinful. And for all this capped volcano produced in terms of bridges and houses, factories and bombs, it gouted from its riven sides a frightful harvest of neurosis. And even where a nation officially discarded the church, the same repressive techniques remained, the same preoccupation with doctrine, filtered through the same mesh of guilt. So sex and religion, the real meaning of human existence, ceased to be meaning and became means; the unbridgeable hostility between the final combatants was the proof of the identity of their aim—the total domination, for the ultimate satisfaction of the will to superiority, of all human minds.”

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Theodore Sturgeon livre Venus Plus X

Section 41 (p. 130)
Venus Plus X (1960)

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

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Theodore Sturgeon livre Venus Plus X

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

“Love’s a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.”

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Theodore Sturgeon livre More Than Human

Source: More Than Human (1953), Chapter 3, p. 169

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

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“Faith is a beautiful thing. So are forest fires, and the color of gangrene. I think faith—especially capital-F Faith—is more dangerous and more disgusting than either. It is a substitute for thought.”

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How to Avoid a Hole in the Head in Marvel Science Stories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Science_Stories (May 1951), p. 115

“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?"”

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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?”

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Theodore Sturgeon livre 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)

“I remember wondering smokily whether anyone ever loves a person. People seem to love dreams instead, and for the lucky ones, the person is close to the dream. But it’s a dream all the same, a sticky dream. You unload the person, and the dream stays with you.”

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Source: Short fiction, The Martian and the Moron (1949), p. 44

“Half of humanity doesn’t know what it wants or how to find out. The other half knows what it wants, hasn’t got it, and is going crazy trying to convince itself that it already has it.”

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Source: Short fiction, The Martian and the Moron (1949), p. 37

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