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He had doubted too long. His concept of the society had become ironbound. It was almost impossible for him to believe that there were others like him. And, after the first shock had diminished, all the dogma of his long years alone had asserted itself.

— Richard Matheson I Am Legend (1954)

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I don’t believe in the "supernatural," I believe in the "supernormal."

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And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

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