Rod Serling Quotes

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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.
• Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
• According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and…
• Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
• The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a…
• Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.
• How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art…
• I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.
• You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are…
• When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may…
• But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass…
• The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity,…
• I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
• Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was…
• I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate…
• Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace…
• If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.
• If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find…
• I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through…
• Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

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