Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. And I suppose I subscribe to that, too. But God knows when I look back over thirty years of professional writing, I'm hard-pressed to come up with anything that's important. Some things are literate, some things are interesting, some things are classy, but very damn little is important.

Rod Serling's Popular Quotes

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

- Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

- Rod Serling

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

- Rod Serling

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

- Rod Serling

If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sy…

- Rod Serling

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

- Rod Serling

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the…

- Rod Serling

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 infreq…

- Rod Serling

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

- Rod Serling