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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.

Richard Matheson

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Richard Matheson
Age: 87 †
Born: 1926
Born: February 20
Died: 2013
Died: June 23
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Allendale
New Jersey
Richard Burton Matheson
Logan Swanson
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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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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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Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
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I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.
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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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(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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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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The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.
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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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How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.
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That which you believe becomes your world
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Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.
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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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I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look at what's going on in the America today. The violence is just awful and I think a lot of has to do with what they are showing on the movies and television.
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To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.
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I can get pissed off very easily.
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Quiet is here and all in me. (Dress of White Silk)
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When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?
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