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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

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If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human s...

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The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

I only wanted to tell you that this was the wonderful time for you. Don’t let any of it go by withou...

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Stories from the Twilight Zone

Farewell, Timothy Riley’s Bar," Lane said softly. "Home of the nickel beer. Snooker emporium. Reposi...

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Rod Serling's Night Gallery

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you d...

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Requiem for a Heavyweight and Other Plays - Tragedy in a Temporary Town

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continu...

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Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search ...

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Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible...

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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, ...

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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space an...

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In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written b...

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Rod Serling

Screenwriter

Born: 1924-12-25

Died: 1975-06-28

Rod Serling (born Rodman Edward Serling, 25 December 1924 – 28 June 1975) was an American writer and television producer best remembered for his science fiction TV series The Twilight Zone.More