Richard Matheson Quotes

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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.

  Richard Matheson

  Sweet, Soul, Lovely

  Richard Matheson (1978). “What dreams may come: a novel”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• That which you believe becomes your world

  Richard Matheson

  Believe, World

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

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• How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

  Richard Matheson

  Incredibles, Enough, Accepting

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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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

  Morning, Sleep, Men

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

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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.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Creative, Opponents

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• In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

  Richard Matheson

  Dream, World, Horror

  Richard Matheson (2017). “Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday”, p.90, RosettaBooks

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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.

  Richard Matheson

  Believe, Thinking, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

  Richard Matheson

  Able, Seems, Ifs

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• Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

  Richard Matheson

  Men, Majority, Normalcy

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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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.

  Richard Matheson

  Reality, Details, Fundamentals

  Richard Matheson (1999). “The Path: A New Look At Reality”, p.14, Macmillan

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• When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, I just express my own approach to these things. I think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. And the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.

  Richard Matheson

  Divorce, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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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.

  Richard Matheson

  Couple, Reading, People

  "ED GORMAN CALLING: We Talk to Richard Matheson". www.mysteryfile.com.

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• Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

  Richard Matheson

  Would Be, World, Mess

  Richard Matheson (2013). “A Stir of Echoes”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Typewriters, Office

  Richard Matheson (2003). “Collected Stories”, Gauntlet Press

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• After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

  Richard Matheson

  Feeling Sad, Sorrow, Despair

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

  Richard Matheson

  Earth, Path

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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. This quest for enlightenment must begin now.
  It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late.

  Richard Matheson

  Men, Our World, Civilization

  "The Path". Book by Richard Matheson, 1999.

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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.

  Richard Matheson

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Book

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Pain, Circles, People

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

  Richard Matheson

  Dream, Book, Thinking

  "ED GORMAN CALLING: We Talk to Richard Matheson". www.mysteryfile.com.

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• How long did it take for a past to die?

  Richard Matheson

  Past, Long, Dies

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• …They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.

  Richard Matheson

  Suicide, Thinking, Spirit

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• What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

  Richard Matheson

  Vampire, Crosses, Ifs

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.

  Richard Matheson

  Together, Our Love, Height

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.276, Macmillan

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• He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don't you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Writing, Men

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