Richard Matheson Quotes
Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
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I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.
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为什么外国互联网公司到中国大都失败了？谷歌也不行、雅虎也不行、eBay这些都被中国本土公司给搞死掉了？是不是中国不能做？任何一个失败的人是最容易找藉口的，人类总是为失败找藉口，不为成功找方向。
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For that river of red could be the death of me.God, give me strength and keep reminding meThat blood is thicker than water.Oh, but love is thicker than blood.And if blood is thicker than water,Then what are we fighting for?We're all sons and daughtersOf something that means so much more.
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Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?
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At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.
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Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
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I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.
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Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
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I had, to be sure, been drawn into economics when the General Theory was an exciting revelation for students hungry for explanation and remedy of the Great Depression. At the same time, I was uncomfortable with several aspects of Keynes’ theory, and I sought to improve what would now be called the microfoundations of his macroeconomic relations.
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Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
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Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.
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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.
