Frasi di Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson
Data di nascita: 20. Febbraio 1926
Data di morte: 23. Giugno 2013
Richard Burton Matheson è stato uno scrittore e sceneggiatore statunitense.
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„[…] Se servisse a contribuire realmente alla pace nel mondo, sareste disposti a camminare per le strade di Broadway, a New York… nudi?
L'idea che ha portato alla stesura di The Box è di natura simile: il sacrificio della dignità umana in cambio di un preciso scopo. Ma in questo caso nulla che somigli neppure vagamente a qualcosa di nobile come la pace nel mondo.“
— Richard Matheson
dall'introduzione a The Box e altri racconti
„Tempo, fammi un ultimo favore. Fermati su questo momento sublime, in maniera che io possa viverlo per sempre.“
— Richard Matheson
da Appuntamento nel tempo, traduzione di Vittorio Curtoni, Mondadori
„That which you believe becomes your world.“
— Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
„Heaven would never be heaven without you.“
— Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
„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.“
— Richard Matheson
Context: 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.
Ch. 21
„I have to try to pull it out again.“
— Richard Matheson
Context: This day father hit in the chain again before it had light. I have to try to pull it out again. He said I was bad to come upstairs. He said never do that again or he would beat me hard. That hurts.
„I've always considered myself an offbeat writer.“
— Richard Matheson
Context: I've always considered myself an offbeat writer. Out here in California they like to categorize, so I'm a science fiction writer. I wrote science fiction to break into the writing business. My love is fantasy. I wrote one of my early novels in four days sitting in a closet which I'd converted into an office, using an old Smith-Corona that my parents had given me for Christmas when I was 12.
„X — This day when it had light mother called me a retch.“
— Richard Matheson
Context: X — This day when it had light mother called me a retch. You retch she said. I saw in her eyes the anger. I wonder what it is a retch.
„Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.“
— Richard Matheson
Context: 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.
Introduction to The Path (1999), based on ideas presented in Thinking and Destiny (1946) by Harold W. Percival, p. 12
„Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs.“
— Richard Matheson
Context: They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors.
Take that last, now. According to legend, they were invisible in mirrors, but he knew that was untrue. As untrue as the belief that they transformed themselves into bats. That was a superstition that logic, plus observation had easily disposed of. ‘It was equally foolish to believe that they could transform themselves into wolves. Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs.
Ch. 2
„All through the years, I've had many interests.“
— Richard Matheson
Context: All through the years, I've had many interests. I always wanted to write a swashbuckler; I still do. I love Westerns. I wrote a western called "Journal of the Gun Years," which won the Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. It had been written some time ago and rejected by every publisher, perhaps because I had been cast in the science fiction mold. I finished writing a combination western and horror story indigenous to the period. And horror takes many forms: Indians had their own superstitions based on things that they didn't understand. In a way, I like to be confusing by combining genres.
I've always been fascinated by parapsychology, and I think that we've all lived before. In "The Path" I've explored that and a few other age-old questions like why are we here and what's our purpose in life.
