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Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point "in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us."

— Richard Matheson Bid Time Return (1978)

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

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

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

I Am Legend (1954)

What you don’t understand yet is that we’re going to stay alive. We’ve found a way to do that and we’re going to set up society again slowly but surely.

I Am Legend (1954)

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.

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