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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
“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
“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
“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. (â€œAdvance Noticeâ€)”
-- Richard Matheson

#Morning #Typewriters #Office
“In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Dream #World #Horror
“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Sorrow #Feeling Sad #Despair
“All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Earth #Path
“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.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Beautiful #Dog #Strong
“How long did it take for a past to die?”
-- Richard Matheson

#Past #Long
“That which you believe becomes your world”
-- Richard Matheson

#Believe #World
“As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Body #Buried #Analysts
“Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Sobriety #Jagged Edge
“In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Dream #Hands #Giving
“Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Blood #Soul #Vampire
“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
“Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Men #Majority #Normalcy
“A man could get used to anything if he had to.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Men #Used
“And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Legends #Caught #Caught Up
“He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planetâ€™s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Book #Men #Mind
“What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?”
-- Richard Matheson

#Vampire #Crosses
“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
“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 #Civilization #Our World
“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isnâ€™t it?”
-- Richard Matheson

#Dream #Real #Sleep
“Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death . ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Dream #Writing #Stories
“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 #Fundamentals #Elements
“Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one...”
-- Richard Matheson

#Kindness #Children #Proud
“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
“Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Our World #Profound #Survival
“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
“How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.”
-- Richard Matheson

#Incredibles #Enough #Accepting

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