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The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.
Richard Matheson
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Richard Matheson
Age: 87 †
Born: 1926
Born: February 20
Died: 2013
Died: June 23
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Science Fiction Writer
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Allendale
New Jersey
Richard Burton Matheson
Logan Swanson
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Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
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If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.
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A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.
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(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded. . . Will those people ever progress, even with our help?
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But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.
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I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
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I can get pissed off very easily.
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Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
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It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.
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Now when I die, I shall only be dead.
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That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.
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If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.
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What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?
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Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)
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Quiet is here and all in me. (Dress of White Silk)
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…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.
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Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
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He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.
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