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If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

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
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Syracuse
New York
Rodman Edward Serling
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I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.
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Infinitely more taboos, on television.
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You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
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Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'
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for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
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All the Dachaus must remain standing.
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Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
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I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.
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Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
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Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.
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I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.
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Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
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The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in becoming narcissistic.
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Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
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I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and all the rest of them not only to run, but what causes us to vote for them.
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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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Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.
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You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.
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You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.
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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
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