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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
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Syracuse
New York
Rodman Edward Serling
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Truth
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Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.
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You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.
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I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.
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I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.
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I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.
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It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
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If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
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It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.
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I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself.
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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.
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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
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