“It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from The Shrinking Man
“To look at the entire journey all at once was stupidity. You thought of it in segments; that was the only way.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from The Shrinking Man
“Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction. Mostly, it hurt…”
― Richard Matheson, quote from The Shrinking Man
“Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from The Shrinking Man
“But now, in the final hours, even hope had vanished. Yet he could smile. At a point without hope he had found contentment. He knew he had tried and there was nothing to be sorry for. And this was complete victory, because it was a victory over himself.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from The Shrinking Man
“This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from The Shrinking Man
Richard Matheson
Born place: in Allendale, New Jersey, The United States
Born date February 20, 1926
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“So? You have a boy's name."
"And you have a dog's name.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Fall for Anything
“Nós compreendemos há muito tempo que não era mais possível mudar este mundo, nem remodelá-lo, nem impedir sua infeliz trajetória para a frente. Havia uma única resistência possível: não levá-lo a sério. Mas constato que nossas gozações perderam seu poder.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Festival of Insignificance
“Qui plus sait, plus se tait”
― Voltaire, quote from Candide: or, Optimism
“Every human being occupies a space at the dead center of his or her own universe.”
― Graeme Cameron, quote from Normal
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یه اسم وقیحانه و تلخ! معنیش اینه که عشقهای دیگری هم بعد از آن می آید. حتی نیشخند حکیمانۀ دانندۀ گوینده هم از لای آن پیداست. اما اشتباه می کنن. هیچ کس در عمرش دو بار عاشق نشده. عشق دوم و سوم و...!!! تنها معنیش اینه که «هیچ معنی ای نداره.» رفت و آمده، خفت و خیزه. حتما زندگیهایی هست که جز همین خفت و خیز نیست”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum
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