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Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

Rod Serling

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Rod Serling
Age: 50 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 25
Died: 1975
Died: June 28
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Syracuse
New York
Rodman Edward Serling
Menace
Iron
Logic
Rule
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Truth
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