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Richard Burton Matheson, né le 20 février 1926 à Allendale au New Jersey et mort le 23 juin 2013 à Calabasas en Californie, est un écrivain et scénariste américain. Ses genres de prédilection sont la science-fiction et l’épouvante. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. février 1926 – 23. juin 2013
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“Le monde est absurde, pensa-t-il, les morts s'y promènent en liberté et je ne m'en étonne même plus…”

Richard Matheson

Citations de ses romans, Je suis une légende (I am Legend), 1954

“Robert Neville regardait le peuple de la Terre. Il savait qu'il n'en faisait pas partie.”

Richard Matheson

Citations de ses romans, Je suis une légende (I am Legend), 1954

“Quelle serait la réaction de vampires musulmans devant la croix?”

Richard Matheson

Citations de ses romans, Je suis une légende (I am Legend), 1954

“A présent, c'est moi le monstre…”

Richard Matheson

Citations de ses romans, Je suis une légende (I am Legend), 1954

“La puissance du vampire tient à ce que personne ne croit à son existence…”

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Citation elle-même tirée du Dracula de Bram Stoker
Citations de ses romans, Je suis une légende (I am Legend), 1954

“Les sociétés naissantes sont toujours primitives.”

Richard Matheson

Citations de ses romans, Je suis une légende (I am Legend), 1954

Richard Matheson: Citations en anglais

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

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Richard Matheson livre What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

“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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Richard Matheson livre What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

“Chris:I forgive you.
Annie: For killing my children and my sweet husband?
Chris: For being so wonderful a guy would choose hell over heaven just to be around you.”

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Richard Matheson livre What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

“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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Source: I Am Legend and Other Stories

“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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Richard Matheson livre What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

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

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Richard Matheson livre I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend

“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.”

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Richard Matheson livre What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

“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.”

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Richard Matheson livre What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”

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Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel

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

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Richard Matheson livre I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend

“How
long did it take for a past to die?”

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Richard Matheson livre I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend

“The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.”

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Source: I Am Legend and Other Stories

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

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Richard Matheson livre A Stir of Echoes

Source: A Stir of Echoes

“When I first joined my local library, I read endlessly. I immediately headed for the fantasy section, fairy tales, you name it. As a teen-ager, I read every novel by Kenneth Roberts, who wrote historical novels about the Revolutionary War period. My mother used to read to me. Heidi was one of my childhood favorites.”

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The New York Times interview (1994)

“It is a secret but I have pulled the chain out of the wall. I can see out the little window all I like.”

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Born of Man and Woman (1950)

“I can get pissed off very easily.”

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"He Is Legend" interview at Cinemaspy (2007)

“The world’s gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it.
The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it.”

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Richard Matheson livre I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 8

“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.”

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Introduction to an Omnibus edition of his work, as quoted in Somewhere in Time (1998), p. 318 - 319

“George Romero filmed an homage to the book, and he called it Night of the Living Dead. Homage means I can make the picture and I don't have to pay you for your book. As a teen-ager I saw the movie "Dracula," and it occurred to me that if one vampire was scary, a whole world populated by vampires would be really scary.”

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On his novel I Am Legend, and the inspiration for it.
The New York Times interview (1994)

“A woman. Alive. In the daylight.
He stood, mouth partly open, gaping at the woman. She was young, he could see now as she came closer; probably in her twenties. She wore a wrinkled and dirty white dress. She was very tan, her hair was red. In the dead silence of the afternoon Neville thought he heard the crunch of her shoes in the long grass.
I’ve gone mad. The words presented themselves abruptly. He felt less shock at that possibility than he did at the notion that she was real. He had, in fact, been vaguely preparing himself for just such a delusion. It seemed feasible. The man who died of thirst saw mirages of lakes. Why shouldn’t a man who thirsted for companionship see a woman walking in the sun?”

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Richard Matheson livre I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 15

“To his complete astonishment, he later found himself offering up a stumbling prayer that the dog would be protected. It was a moment in which he felt a desperate need to believe in a God that shepherded his own creations. But, even praying, he felt a twinge of self-reproach, and knew he might start mocking his own prayer at any second.
Somehow, though, he managed to ignore his iconoclastic self and went on praying anyway. Because he wanted the dog, because he needed the dog.”

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Richard Matheson livre I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 12

“Sometimes he had indulged in daydreams about finding someone. More often, though, he had tried to adjust to what he sincerely believed was the inevitable — that he was actually the only one left in the world. At least in as much of the world as he could ever hope to know.”

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Richard Matheson livre I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 13

“My wife and child and I were on a camping trip and we stopped in Virginia City. In the Opera House, I saw a photograph of Maude Adams, the famous American actress. It was such a great photograph that creatively I fell in love with her. What if some guy did the same thing and could go back in time?”

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On his initial inspiration for the novel Bid Time Return (1975), as quoted in Behind the Scenes of Somewhere in Time (1980) http://erasofelegance.com/OldFiles/Movies/sitmovie.html"

“I hate it when something I’ve had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I’ve written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.”

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"Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson" http://www.mysteryfile.com/Matheson/Interview.html (2004)

“Despite everything he had or might have (except, of course, another human being), life gave no promise of improvement or even of change. The way things shaped up, he would live out his life with no more than he already had. And how many years was that? Thirty, maybe forty if he didn’t drink himself to death.
The thought of forty more years of living as he was made him shudder.”

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Richard Matheson livre I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 12

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